Events from the year 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 February 9 February Estvan Svend Aage Wehlast was shot by the Gestapo while resisting arrest.
March 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.
May 5 May – The occupation of Denmark ends with Nazi Germany's capitulation to the Allied Forces.
December 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 (died 2023) 6 January – Margrete Auken, politician 17 January Ib Michael, author 18 January – Kirsten Klein, photographer 26 January – Vibeke Sperling, journalist (died 2017) 27 January Margit Brandt, fashion designer (died 2011) 11 February Niels Jørgen Cappelørn, theologian and author 24 February – Mikael Salomon, film director, cinematographer 21 March – Henrik Nordbrandt, poet (died 2023) 28 March – Patricia Crone, Orientalist and historian (died 2015)
AprilJune 27 April Carsten Koch, economist and politician 30 April Jan Weincke, cinematographer 10 May – Morten Bo, photographer 14 June Thor Pedersen, politician 31 July Finn Laudrup, footballer
JulySeptember 5 July Ebbe Skovdahl, football manager (died 2020) 6 September Niels Peter Lemche, theologian, political scholar
OctoberDecember 23 October – Kim Larsen, singer-songwriter (died 2018) 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 (born 1870) 9 February Estvan Svend Aage Wehlast, member of the resistance movement (born 1916) 21 February – Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, sculptor (born 1863) 5 March – Albrecht Schmidt, film actor (born 1870)
AprilJune 30 April – Gudmund Nyeland Brandt, landscape architect (born 1878)
JulySeptember 8 August Henning Hansen, architect (born 1880) 9 September – Aage Bertelsen, Danish painter (b. 1873) 10 September – Otto Scavenius, diplomat, Foreign Minister for one day during the Easter Crisis of 1920 (born 1875)
OctoberDecember 2 November Princess Thyra of Denmark (died 1880) 17 November Elna Munch, feminist, suffragist and politician, one of the three first women to be elected to the Danish parliament in 1918 (born 1871) Jens Olsen, clockmaker, locksmith and astromechanic, constructor of the World Clock in Copenhagen City Hall (born 1872) 17 December Mikkel Hindhede, physician and nutritionist (born 1862)
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