1943 in Denmark

Events from the year 1943 in Denmark.

Incumbents

29 April – Some 100 prominent Danes are taken hostage by the occupying German forces in the attempt to stop sabotage by the Danish resistance movement.
30 May Queen Alexandrine Bridge between Zealand and Møn is inaugurated.
29 August – The Danish government resigns, leading to direct administration of Denmark by German authority.
28 September – Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz, a German diplomat, after secretly making sure Sweden would receive Jewish refugees, leaks word of the German plans for the arrest and deportation of the some 8,000 Danish Jews to Hans Hedtoft, chairman of the Danish Social Democratic Party. The result is the rescue of the Danish Jews, with most of the country's Jews escaping to Sweden.

16 April – Erling Kroner, jazz trombonist, composer and bandleader
13 May – Kurt Trampedach, painter
17 May Jette Nevers, textile artist
24 May – Svend Auken, politician
15 June – Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, politician, former Danish Prime Minister, President of PES