1945 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian X
• Prime Minister –
• * until 5 May: German military rule
• * 5 May-7 November Vilhelm Buhl
• * starting 7 November: Knud Kristensen

Events

• 21 March – The British Operation Carthage, an air raid targeting the local Gestapo headquarters in the Shell Building in central Copenhagen, goes wrong and 123 Danish civilians, including 87 school children, are killed.
• 5 May – The occupation of Denmark ends with Nazi Germany's capitulation to the Allied Forces.
• 12 December - The David Foundation and Collections is founded as an independent institution by C. L. David with his art collection on public display at the top floor of his home in Kronprinsessegade in Copenhagen as the focal point of its activity.

Sports

• AB wins their fifth Danish football championship by winning the 1944–45 Danish War Tournament.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 2 January – Hans Edvard Nørregård-Nielsen, art historian
• 6 January – Margrete Auken, politician
• 17 January Ib Michael, author
• 18 January – Kirsten Klein, photographer
• 26 January – Vibeke Sperling, journalist
• 27 January Margit Brandt, fashion designer
• 24 February – Mikael Salomon, film director, cinematographer
• 21 March – Henrik Nordbrandt, poet
• 28 March – Patricia Crone, Orientalist and historian

AprilJune

• 30 April Jan Weincke, cinematographer
• 10 May – Morten Bo, photographer
• 14 June Thor Pedersen, politician
• 31 July Finn Laudrup, footballer

OctoberDecember

• 23 October – Kim Larsen, singer-songwriter
• 3 November – Peder Pedersen, cyclist and policeman
• 19 November Jan Petersen, medallist and graphic artist
• 3 December - Hans Hækkerup, lawyer and politician

Full date unknown

• Allan Scharff, silversmith and designer

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

• 15 January - Holger Damgaard, photographer
• 21 February – Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, sculptor
• 5 March – Albrecht Schmidt, film actor

AprilJune

• 30 April – Gudmund Nyeland Brandt, landscape architect

JulySeptember

• 8 August Henning Hansen, architect
• 9 September – Aage Bertelsen, Danish painter
• 10 September – Otto Scavenius, diplomat, Foreign Minister for one day during the Easter Crisis of 1920

OctoberDecember

• 17 November
• *Elna Munch, feminist, suffragist and politician, one of the three first women to be elected to the Danish parliament in 1918
• * Jens Olsen, clockmaker, locksmith and astromechanic, constructor of the World Clock in Copenhagen City Hall