1943 in Denmark
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Template:Short description Template:Year in Denmark Events from the year 1943 in Denmark.
Incumbents
- Monarch – Christian X[1]
- Prime minister – Erik Scavenius (until 29 September), 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.[2]
- 30 May Template:Ndash Queen Alexandrine Bridge between Zealand and Møn is inaugurated.
- 29 August – The Danish government resigns, leading to direct administration of Denmark by German authority.[3]
- 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.[4] 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
JanuaryTemplate:NdashMarch
- 27 March – Jørgen Hansen, welterweight boxer (died 2018)
AprilTemplate:NdashJune
- 16 April – Erling Kroner, jazz trombonist, composer and bandleader (died 2011)
- 13 May – Kurt Trampedach, painter (died 2013)
- 17 May Template:Ndash Jette Nevers, textile artist
- 24 May – Svend Auken, politician (died 2009)
- 15 June – Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, politician, former Danish Prime Minister, President of PES[5]
JulyTemplate:NdashOctober
- 13 August Template:Ndash Margrethe Agger, textile artist
- 16 October Template:Ndash Erik Rud Brandt, fashion designer and businessman (died 2023)
- 18 October Template:Ndash Birthe Rønn Hornbech, politician
Deaths
JanuaryTemplate:NdashMarch
- 30 January Template:Ndash Karen Hannoverm ceramist (born 1872)
- 9 February Template:Ndash Povl Bentzon, engineer and land surveyor (born 1858)
- 24 February – Thomas Madsen-Mygdal, farmer, politician, Prime Minister of Denmark 1926–29 (born 1876)
- 15 March – Betty Nansen, actress and theatre director (born 1873)
AprilTemplate:NdashJune
- 9 April Template:Ndash Edvard Weie, painter (died 1879)
- 30 April Template:Ndash Otto Jespersen, linguist (born 1860)
- 21 May – Ivar Bentsen, architect (born 1876)
- 27 June – Knud Arne Petersen, architect and artistic director (born 1862)
JulyTemplate:NdashSeptember
- 28 July Template:Ndash Sophus Wangøe, cinematographer (born 1873)
- 21 August – Henrik Pontoppidan, Nobel Prize-winning writer (born 1857)
OctoberTemplate:NdashDecember
- 5 October Template:Ndash Ole Olsen, filmmaker and Nordisk Film-founder (born 1863)
- 30 November – Holger-Madsen, actor (born 1878)
References
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