1943 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian X
• Prime minister – Erik Scavenius, 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.
• 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.

  Births

• 27 March – Jørgen Hansen, welterweight boxer
• 16 April – Erling Kroner, jazz trombonist, composer and bandleader
• 13 May – Kurt Trampedach, painter
• 24 May – Svend Auken, politician
• 15 June – Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, politician, former Danish Prime Minister, President of PES

  Deaths

• 23 February – Thomas Madsen-Mygdal, farmer, politician, Prime Minister of Denmark 1926–29
• 15 March – Betty Nansen, actress and theatre director
• 21 May – Ivar Bentsen, architect
• 27 June – Knud Arne Petersen, architect and artistic director
• 21 August – Henrik Pontoppidan, Nobel Prize-winning writer
• 30 November – Holger-Madsen, actor