After serving a treason sentence he returned in the 1950s to edit the historical revisionist newspaper Folk og Land.
He was involved in politics and organizational life in the interwar period, and was also among Norway's top-ten middle distance runners.
[3] He started his journalistic career in local newspapers as well as Den 17de Mai and Morgenbladet.
During the legal purge in Norway after World War II he was tried in court for being a Nasjonal Samling member from September 1940, being the local party leader in Risør from October 1940, being acting mayor in Risør from January to April 1941, being a Hird member and holding several pro-Nazi speeches all over Norway between 1940 and 1942.
He was also tried for several actions as editor of Stavanger Aftenblad, among others the denouncing of salesman Josef Kvavik and illustrator Henry Imsland.