Career
Privately he was a gardening consultant and fruit producer. After editing a single tax proposal with Jakob East. Lange, which the Radical Liberal Party rejected, he switched to the Justice Party in 1928. During the German occupation of Denmark from 1940 to 45 he was secretary of the Parliamentary Cooperation Committee ("Nine Manitoba Committee"), a cross-party body of the democratic parties which was a link between Parliament and the government in questions regarding the occupation.
His energetic opposition caused indignation and got him enemies in the former resistance movement.
He received a letter with death threats which caused much attention in the press