He was a trade unionist before the war, a secretary in Norwegian Union of Municipal Employees.
Together with people like Håkon Meyer and Kåre Rein[2] he joined Fagopposisjonen av 1940 in 1940 and the Fascist party Nasjonal Samling in December 1940.
In the autumn, Håkon Meyer was fired as leader of the mega-union Forbundet for offentlige yrker.
He was then fired, formally for alcohol abuse and economic irregularities, but he had also criticized Just Lippestad and Odd Fossum.
[1] During the legal purge in Norway after World War II he was convicted of treason and in May 1946 sentenced to seven years of forced labour and confiscation of 20,000 kr.