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1943 in Denmark

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Events from the year 1943 in Denmark.

Incumbents

  • Monarch – Christian X
  • 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.
  • 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

Births

January{{ndash}}March

  • 27 March – Jørgen Hansen, welterweight boxer (died 2018)

April{{ndash}}June

  • 16 April – Erling Kroner, jazz trombonist, composer and bandleader (died 2011)
  • 13 May – Kurt Trampedach, painter (died 2013)
  • 17 May Jette Nevers, textile artist
  • 24 May – Svend Auken, politician (died 2009)
  • 15 June – Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, politician, former Danish Prime Minister, President of PES

July{{ndash}}October

  • 13 August Margrethe Agger, textile artist
  • 16 October Erik Rud Brandt, fashion designer and businessman (died 2023)
  • 18 October Birthe Rønn Hornbech, politician

Deaths

January{{ndash}}March

  • 30 January Karen Hannoverm ceramist (born 1872)
  • 9 February 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)

April{{ndash}}June

  • 9 April Edvard Weie, painter (died 1879)
  • 30 April Otto Jespersen, linguist (born 1860)
  • 21 May – Ivar Bentsen, architect (born 1876)
  • 27 June – Knud Arne Petersen, architect and artistic director (born 1862)

July{{ndash}}September

  • 28 July Sophus Wangøe, cinematographer (born 1873)
  • 21 August – Henrik Pontoppidan, Nobel Prize-winning writer (born 1857)

October{{ndash}}December

  • 5 October Ole Olsen, filmmaker and Nordisk Film-founder (born 1863)
  • 30 November – Holger-Madsen, actor (born 1878)

References

References

  1. "Christian X {{!}} king of Denmark".
  2. "DET SVENSKE UTRIKESDEPARTEMENT OG JØDEFORFØLGELSERNE I DANMARK EN STUDIE I HUMANITÆR HÆLP OG REALPOLITIK". Den Danske Gistoriske Forening.
  3. "2. Verdenskrig". Gyldendal.
  4. (1987). "The Rescue of the Danish Jews: moral courage under stress". Leo Goldberger.
  5. (1999). "The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz". Virgin.
  6. "Poul Nyrup Rasmussen {{!}} Biography & Facts".
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