1945 in Denmark explained

Events from the year 1945 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian X^[1]
• 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.^[2]
• 5 May – The occupation of Denmark ends with Nazi Germany's capitulation to the Allied Forces.^[3]
• 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

JanuaryMarch

• 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^[4] (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)

AprilJune

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

OctoberDecember

• 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

JanuaryMarch

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

AprilJune

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

JulyNovember

• 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)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Christian X king of Denmark . Encyclopedia Britannica . 17 June 2019 . en.
2. Web site: Sønder Boulevard - Operation Carthage. da. geocaching. 2011-09-21.
3. Web site: 2. Verdenskrig. Gyldendal. 2009-11-18.
4. Encyclopedia: Paulsen. Inge-Lise. Nissen. Vibeke. Vibeke Sperling (1945 - 2017) Sperling, Vibeke von. Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon. 2003. KVINFO.