Already from the autumn of 1941 he had been a close contact of NS politician Alf Whist.
[1] Norges Næringssamband was an employers' association in which Whist was co-founder and president.
Whist and Hasvold used it as a vehicle for political power, but also to outline technological visions for a future Fascist Norway.
[2] The German occupation ended on 8 May 1945, and Hasvold promptly lost his job.
As a part of the legal purge in Norway after World War II, in 1948 he was sentenced to four years of forced labour.