Vogt-Svendsen was born in Kristiania, the son of shipmaster Johan Fredrik Svendsen and Elisabeth Fredrikke Emilie Larsen.
[1] Vogt-Svendsen was decorated Knight, First class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1945 for his war contributions.
[1] After the war, Vogt-Svendsen served as seamen's priest in the port city of Mobile, Alabama from 1945 to 1947, and in the Italian seaport of Genoa from 1947 to 1951.
From 1951 he managed the institution Hjemmet for Døve, a home for the deaf in Nordstrand, which had been founded by his grandfather Conrad Svendsen.
In 1968 he was appointed to the position of main priest for the deaf in Norway (Norwegian: hovedprest for Norges døve).