Membership
He was an elected member of the Folketing from 1861 to 1866, and a royally appointed member of the Landsting from 1866 to 1895. In the 1855 case at the Court of Impeachment (Danish: Rigsretten) against members of the Cabinet of Ørsted, he was defence lawyer for Frederik Ferdinand von Tillisch, Christian Albrecht Bluhme, Wilhelm Sponneck and Anton Wilhelm Scheel.