1943 in Denmark
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- Monarch – Christian X[1]
- 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.[2]
- 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.[3]
- 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.[4] 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.
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