 In 1912, he was elected as the Reichstag delegate for the Tondern–Husum–Eiderstedt constituency for the "Freisinnige Volkspartei".In the German Revolution, he was arrested by the local radical Workers' council on 8 December 1918.He was a DDP member of the Weimar National Assembly in 1919 to 1920 and a DDP member of the Reichstag from 1920 to 1924.