Born on May 16, 1890 in Trnava. After finishing secondary school, attended business school (Handelshochschule) in Vienna prior to W.W. I, drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army, but was not sent to the front.
After the war managed the family's corn starch factory in Boleraz near Trnava, then at the time of the Great Depression sold the factory in 1929 to Corn Products Refining Company of New York (a very large corporation still in existence today) and become the general manager of the company's Czechoslovak branch with seat in Bratislava.
In 1937 transfered the office to Prague. In 1939, after the Germans marched into Prague, the company's German affiliate, Maizenawerke AG, took over the company and terminated Arpad's employment as of May 31, 1939. Corn Products gave him a severance pay of one year's salary. On May 21, 1939 he committed suicide, probably because of depression.
He had planned to emigrate to Australia with his Swiss girl friend and Erich, his eldest son and was in possession of an Australian immigration visa at the time of his death. He was an atheist and insisted that his younger son, Peter, be exempted from religious education at school.