1937 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian X
• Prime minister – Thorvald Stauning

  Events

• 18 May – The state national police force Rigspolitiet – under command of one chief of police – begins operations.
• 14 December – Many documents from the National Archives of Denmark, the Royal Danish Library and Copenhagen University Library relating to Norwegian conditions are transferred to Norway.

  Births

• 14 January - Erland Kops, badminton player
• 14 June – Jørgen Leth, film director, writer, poet

  Deaths

• 8 February – Martin Borch, architect
• 22 March – Thorvald Aagaard, composer
• 23 March – Helge Rode, writer, critic and journalist
• 30 December – Hans Niels Andersen, businessman, founder of East Asiatic Company