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 AB wins their fourth Danish football championship by winning the 1942–43 Danish War Tournament.
Births JanuaryMarch 27 March – Jørgen Hansen, welterweight boxer (died 2018)
AprilJune 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 24 June Birgit Grodal, economist (died 2003)
JulyOctober 13 August Margrethe Agger, textile artist 30/31 August Carl Henrik Clemmensen, journalist and editor (born 1901) 16 October Erik Rud Brandt, fashion designer and businessman (died 2023) 18 October Birthe Rønn Hornbech, politician
Deaths
JanuaryMarch 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)
AprilJune 9 April Edvard Weie, painter (died 1879) 25 April Julie Marstrand, sculptor (born 1882) 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)
JulySeptember 28 July Sophus Wangøe, cinematographer (born 1873) 21 August – Henrik Pontoppidan, Nobel Prize-winning writer (born 1857)
OctoberDecember 5 October Ole Olsen, filmmaker and Nordisk Film-founder (born 1863) 30 November – Holger-Madsen, actor (born 1878)
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