Career
He was organized in the Norwegian Union of Postmen, and joined the Labour Party in 1925. He was leader of the local Workers" Youth League branch in Trondheim from 1928 to 1929 and 1931 to 1932, deputy leader of the regional branch in Trøndelag from 1926 to 1927 and 1929 to 1931, and leader from 1931 to 1934. He was re-elected at the Workers" Youth League national convention in 1937.
During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, starting in 1940, the organization was forbidden.
Sand himself was imprisoned in Møllergata 19 from 5 September to 19 November 1940. He fled to Sweden, where he from 1943 led the executive committee of the Workers" Youth League-in-exile.
He was the first secretary-general in the association Folk og Forsvar, which promotes the public understanding of military affairs He died in December 1983 and was buried at Vestre gravlund.