He served as deputy head of the NATO Defence College (1976–1980).

He was arrested on 1 April 1942, and sat in Marlag und Milag Nord until being transferred to Rendsburg in early 1943.

After the war Egge entered officers training and served in the Norwegian army in various positions.

Egge served with the Norwegian contingent in the Congo Crisis in 1960 as an intelligence officer, and was the first United Nations official to arrive at the scene of United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld's airplane crash.

[3] Bjorn Egge died on 25 July 2007, believed to be of old age or illness.