On 29 February 1920 he was a co-founder of the first Luxembourgish insurance company, La Luxembourgeoise. He became president of its supervisory board, then from 1923 managing director of the insurance division, and from 1933, managing director of the banking division. On 10 December 1933, he co-founded the Luxembourgish Basketball Federation, and was president of its committee from 1933 to 1936. He was also an avid supporter of the Scout movement. Before World War II he was the head Scout in Luxembourg, and from 1944 to 1948 was
Commissaire général of the Federation of Luxembourgish Scouts. His main area of activity, however, was in politics. In 1917 he was president of the "Akademikerveräin" (Academics' Society), a student organisation which was officially independent, but was close to the
Party of the Right, and its successor party, the CSV. He was described as "Catholic and nationalist". He attempted to defend Grand-Duchess
Marie-Adélaïde against attacks from the left, and opposed a possible annexation of Luxembourg by Belgium. In 1935 he succeeded Eugène Dondelinger as a Deputy to the Chamber for the Party of the Right in the South district. In World War II he was disbarred, and was deported to Germany along with his family by the German occupation authorities. He did not however end up in a concentration camp for medical reasons. ==Later life and death==