After
finishing his secondary education in 1918 he completed officer training at the
Norwegian Military Academy in 1921 as a premier lieutenant in the field artillery. He took the
Norwegian Military College in 1923. He then graduated in
machine engineering from the
Technische Hochschule in Zurich in 1926. He returned to Raufoss Ammunisjonsfabrikk in 1945, went on to be second-in-command of
Hærens våpentekniske korps in 1946, before returning as chief executive officer of Raufoss Ammunisjonsfabrikk from 1950 to his retirement in 1962. ==References==