From 1952 to 1953 he was assigned secretary in the Norwegian Price Directorate, and was then assistant judge in Lier, Røyken and Hurum.
From 1958 to 1972 he was appointed at the Office of the Attorney General of Norway, from 1961 barrister with access to working with Supreme Court cases.
[2] In 1976 he was back at Oslo District Court,[1] and was then appointed director of the Norwegian Competition Authority from 1977 to 1983.
On 26 November 1942, during the German occupation of Norway, he narrowly escaped being sent to German extermination camps, as the cab with him and other family members arrived too late to the harbour to board SS Donau, which on this occasion transported more than 500 Jewish prisoners to Stettin, where they were brought further with train to Auschwitz.
[10] He attended a secondary school in Uppsala, and passed examen artium in Norway in 1947.