He was a deputy judge in Nedre Romerike for one year before being hired in the Nordisk Defence Club.
[1] During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany he was arrested for aiding the Kvarstad vessels in leaving neutral Sweden.
[8] The next year he fled the country to work in Nortraship, as the exiled government's representative in Sweden to broker shipbuilding contracts.
He also published a register of verdict collections in maritime law, Hovedregister til nordiske domme i sjøfartsanliggender 1918–27 in 1928 together with Peter Simonsen.
[1] In sports he chaired the Association for the Promotion of Skiing from 1937 to 1939 and 1946 to 1948,[11] and was a board member of the rowing club Studentenes RK.