Early Career
He was born at Hopland in Alversund as a son of farmer Nils Hjelmtveit, Sr. (1861–1911) and his wife Ingebjørg Herland (1865–1893). He graduated from Stord Teacher's College in 1913, and was hired as a teacher in Eydehamn in the same year. He was promoted to headmaster in 1918. From 1919 to 1920 he also published the temperance weekly magazine Egden.
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