Government Director of Personnel
Having graduated as candidate.jur., he was hired as assistant secretary in the Norwegian Price Directorate (Konkurransetilsynet) in 1940.
In 1946 he was promoted to assistant director under Wilhelm Thagaard. He worked as director of the Cooperative(s) NKL (Norges Kooperative Landsforening) from 1949 to 1960, but returned to the Price Directorate to serve as director from 1961 to 1977. In 1994 the Norwegian Price Directorate was restructured as the Norwegian Competition Authority.