1943 in Denmark
Events from the year 1943 in Denmark.
Incumbents
- Monarch – Christian X
- Prime minister – Erik Scavenius, German military rule
Events
- 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.
Sports
- AB wins their fourth Danish football championship by winning the 1942–43 Danish War Tournament.
Births
JanuaryMarch
- 27 March – Jørgen Hansen, welterweight boxer
AprilJune
- 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
JulyOctober
- 13 August Margrethe Agger, textile artist
- 16 October Erik Rud Brandt, fashion designer and businessman
- 18 October Birthe Rønn Hornbech, politician
Deaths
JanuaryMarch
- 30 January Karen Hannoverm ceramist
- 9 February Povl Bentzon, engineer and land surveyor
- 24 February – Thomas Madsen-Mygdal, farmer, politician, Prime Minister of Denmark 1926–29
- 15 March – Betty Nansen, actress and theatre director
AprilJune
- 9 April Edvard Weie, painter
- 30 April Otto Jespersen, linguist
- 21 May – Ivar Bentsen, architect
- 27 June – Knud Arne Petersen, architect and artistic director
JulySeptember
- 28 July Sophus Wangøe, cinematographer
- 21 August – Henrik Pontoppidan, Nobel Prize-winning writer
OctoberDecember
- 5 October Ole Olsen, filmmaker and Nordisk Film-founder
- 30 November – Holger-Madsen, actor