1911 in Denmark

Events from the year 1911 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick VIII
• Prime minister – Klaus Berntsen

Events

• 14 April The Danish Musicians' Union is established.
• 21 April – The Danish Society for Nature Conservation is founded.
• 13 May The Directorate of State Forestry is established.
• 8 October The Services Union is established.
• 1 December The new Copenhagen Central Station opens.

Undated

• The Royal Danish Navy begins building its fleet of Havmanden-class submarines.

Books

• Morten Korch – Sin egen sti

Sports

Cycling

• Date unknown Thorvald Ellegaard wins gold in men's sprint at the 1911 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.

Football

• 1911 Copenhagen Football Championship
• 25 May The main stadium of Københavns Idrætspark, the first fully enclosed ground in Denmark, opened on the 25 May 1911, with a capacity of 12000, with a football match between a Copenhagen XI and The Wednesday of England.

Culture

Film

• A Victim of the Mormons, directed by August Blom

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 5 January Bjørn Hjelmborg, composer and organist (died 1994)
• 14 January – Clara Østø, actress (died 1983)
• 27 January Lilian Weber Hansen, actress (died 1987)
• 10 February Einar Tang-Holbek, archer (died 2000)
• 20 February – Peter Glob, archaeologist (died 1985)

AprilJune

• 31 May Else Jacobsen, swimmer (died 1965)
• 15 June – Grete Frische, actress, screenwriter and director (died 1962)
• 24 June – Helga Pedersen, politician (died 1980)

JulyDecember

• 3 July Jonas Bruun, lawyer (died 1977)
• 17 July – Anker Jacobsen, tennis player (died 1975)
• 20 July Flemming Helweg-Larsen, Nazi Germany collaborator and murderer (died 1946)
• 24 July Bjørn Stiler, cyclist (died 1996)
• 8 August – Else Jarlbak, actress (died 1963)
• 27 September Poul Cadovius, furniture manufacturer and designer (died 2011)
• 31 October – Richard Olsen, rower (died 1956)
• 23 December – Niels Kaj Jerne, immunologist (died 1994)
• 30 December Hans Ussing, zoologist (died 2000)

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

• 2 January – Elfride Fibiger, writer (born 1832)
• 7 January – Kaspar Rostrup, businessman (birn 1845)
• 3 February – Christian Bohr, physician (born 1855)
• 18 February – Emil Vett, businessman (born 1843)

AprilJune

• 18 April – Poul Sveistrup, politician and social statician (born 1848)
• 8 June – Emil Poulsen, actor and director (born 1842)
• 14 June – Johan Svendsen, composer and conductor (born 1840 in Norway)
• 26 June – Vilhelm Bergsøem author and zoologist (born 1835)

JulySeptember

• 23 July – Niels Viggo Ussing, mineralogist (born 1864)
• 25 July – Anna Laursen, educator and activist (born 1845)
• 7 August – Peder Madsen, theologian and bishop (born 1843)
• 12 September – Niels Andersen, businessman (born 1835)
• 19 September – Gustav Budde-Lund, zoologist (born 1846)

OctoberDecember

• 1 November – Sonja Ferlov Mancobam sculptor (died 1987 in France)
• 2 December – Regitze Barner, writer and philanthropist (born 1834)
• 5 December – Edvard Petersen, painter (born 1841)
• 26 December – Christopher Peter Jürgensen, mechanician and instrument maker (born 1838)

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