1943 in Denmark

Decades:	1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s;
See also:	Other events of 1943; List of years in Denmark

Events from the year 1943 in Denmark.

Incumbents

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.

AB wins their fourth Danish football championship by winning the 1942–43 Danish War Tournament.

16 April – Erling Kroner, jazz trombonist, composer and bandleader (died 2011)
13 May – Kurt Trampedach, painter (died 2013)
17 May – Jette Nevers, textile artist
24 May – Svend Auken, politician (died 2009)
15 June – Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, politician, former Danish Prime Minister, President of PES^[5]

30 January – Karen Hannoverm ceramist (born 1872)
9 February – Povl Bentzon, engineer and land surveyor (born 1858)
24 February – Thomas Madsen-Mygdal, farmer, politician, Prime Minister of Denmark 1926–29 (born 1876)
15 March – Betty Nansen, actress and theatre director (born 1873)