1936 in Denmark explained

Events from the year 1936 in Denmark.

Incumbents

Monarch – Christian X^[1]
Prime minister – Thorvald Stauning

Events

1–16 August – Denmark participates in the 1936 Summer Olympics and wins five medals.
22 September – The 1936 Landsting elections are held.

Undated

The political party Danish Unity is established.
The Viborg Handball Club is established.^[2]

Sports

Cycling

Albert Billiet (BEL) and Werner Grundahl Hansen (DEN) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.
Jan Pijnenburg (NED) and Frans Slaats (NED) and win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.

Football

Grem wins their fourth Danish football championship by winning the 1935–36 Danish Championship League.

Births

JanuaryMarch

4 February Wilhelm Hansen, businessman and art collector (born 1868)
13 March – Finn Kobberø, badminton player (d. 2009)

AprilJune

28 April – John Tchicai, jazz musician and composer (d. 2012)
30 June – Flemming Flindt, ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 2009)

JulySeptember

17 September – Jan Gehl, architect, urban planner

OctoberDecember

1 November – Mimi Heinrich, actress and writer (d. 2017)
30 November – Knud Enemark Jensen, racing cyclist (d. 1960)
7 December – Annette Stroyberg, actress (d. 2005)

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

3 February Heinrich Wenck, architect (born 1851)
22 January – Louis Glass, composer (b. 1864)
22 February – Johan Skjoldborg, novelist, playwright and memoirist (b. 1861)

AprilJune

23 April – Thomas Bærentzen, sculptor (b. 1869)

JulySeptember

3 August – Carl William Hansen, author, Luciferian, wandering bishop and occultist (b. 1872)
2 September Niels Neergaard, politician (born 1854)
27 September Hans Peter Prior, industrialist (born 1866)

OctoberDecember

9 October – Carl Christensen, Denmark's last executioner (b. 1869)
22 October – Hedevig Quiding, singer and music critic (b. 1867)
24 November – J. A. D. Jensen, naval officer and Arctic explorer (b. 1849)

Notes and References

Web site: Christian X king of Denmark . Encyclopedia Britannica . 17 June 2019 . en.
Web site: Viborg HK - Historie . 3 November 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131104160536/http://www.vhk.dk/Klubben/Historie-2.aspx . 4 November 2013 . dead.