He was born in Trondhjem as a son of engineer Fredrik Christopher Trampe Kindt (1885–1913) and Ellen Getz (1887–1973).
[1][2] His mother, who was a sister of Eyvind Getz, was married to insurance director Nicolay Lysholm Bugge from 1918.
After staying abroad for one year he was a deputy judge in Sør-Hedmark District Court from 1939 to 1940 and attorney at Otta from 1941 to 1944.
After the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, he was decorated with the Defence Medal 1940–1945 for resistance, and from 1945 to 1948 he worked as a public prosecutor in the post-war legal purge in Oppland.
[2] After retiring in 1976 Kindt retreated to the rural manor Hedemarksvollen in Brumunddal, near the birthplace of his wife.