After the war, from 1945 until 1949, he worked in the information office of the Presidency of the Government of the People's Republic of Croatia, from 1949 to 1950 as a lawyer at the General Directorate of Coal in Zagreb, and from 1950 to '51 as a legal officer at Raša coal mines. From 1951 until 1955, he worked in the District Court and the State Secretariat for Judicial Administration of the People's Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo, and also as a judge in Mostar, Brčko and Gradačac. From 1955 until 1960, he worked in the supervisory board of the Municipality of Gradačac, and from 1960 to '64 in the Municipal Assembly of Sarajevo-Centar. From 1964 to '65 he worked as a lawyer at the Institute of Economics and then from 1965 to '67 at the Institute for Social Management of the University of Sarajevo. In 1967 he took position at the company "Tito" in Vogošća. Between 1967 and 1968 he worked at the city's Institute for the Protection and Maintenance of Cultural Monuments in Sarajevo and from 1968 until his retirement in 1978 at the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he was first elected senior research associate and secretary of the Commission for the History of the Peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in 1976 scientific advisor.
