• Source: 1945 in Denmark

      • 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


      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.
      5 May – The occupation of Denmark ends with Nazi Germany's capitulation to the Allied Forces.
      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




      = January–March

      =
      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)
      24 February – Mikael Salomon, film director, cinematographer
      21 March – Henrik Nordbrandt, poet (died 2023)
      28 March – Patricia Crone, Orientalist and historian (died 2015)


      = April–June

      =
      30 April – Jan Weincke, cinematographer
      10 May – Morten Bo, photographer
      14 June – Thor Pedersen, politician
      31 July – Finn Laudrup, footballer


      = October–December

      =
      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




      = January–March

      =
      15 January – Holger Damgaard, photographer (born 1870)
      21 February – Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, sculptor (born 1863)
      5 March – Albrecht Schmidt, film actor (born 1870)


      = April–June

      =
      30 April – Gudmund Nyeland Brandt, landscape architect (born 1878)


      = July–November

      =
      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)
      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)


      References

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