1937 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian X
• Prime minister – Thorvald Stauning

Events

• 18 May – The state national police force Rigspolitiet – under command of one chief of police – begins operations.
• 1 August - Danish acquisition of Thule
• 26 September The Storstrøm Bridge is inaugurated.
• 14 December – Many documents from the National Archives of Denmark, the Royal Danish Library and Copenhagen University Library relating to Norwegian conditions are transferred to Norway.

Sports

Cycling

• 2129 August The 1937 UCI Track Cycling World Championships are held in Copenhagen.
• Kees Pellenaars and Frans Slaats win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.

Football

• AB wins their third Danish football championship by winning the 1936–37 Danish Championship League.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 14 January - Erland Kops, badminton player
• 11 February Anders Bodelsenm author

AprilJune

• 14 June – Jørgen Leth, film director, writer, poet

July–September

• 24 August – Bo Christensen, film producer

OctoberDecember

• 3 December Søren Krarup, pastor, writer and politician
• 14 December Aino Kann Rasmussen, archaeologist and curator
• 29 December Ursula Munch-Petersen, ceramist

Deaths

• 8 February – Martin Borch, architect
• 22 March – Thorvald Aagaard, composer
• 23 March – Helge Rode, writer, critic and journalist
• 14 November Carl Hentzen, engineer
• 30 December – Hans Niels Andersen, businessman, founder of East Asiatic Company