 In 1946 he was promoted to deputy under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Transport and Communications, and he was also a member of "Statens lønnskommisjon av 1946".He retired in 1954, and was decorated with the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in the same year.From 1961 he was the secretary-general of "Landsforbundet for folkeavstemning", a lobby organization which worked to include the institution of referenda in the Norwegian Constitution.