1937 in Denmark

Events from the year 1937 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian X
• Prime minister – Thorvald Stauning

Events

• 18 May – The state national police force Rigspolitiet – under command of one chief of police – begins operations.
• 1 August - Danish acquisition of Thule
• 26 September The Storstrøm Bridge is inaugurated.
• 14 December – Many documents from the National Archives of Denmark, the Royal Danish Library and Copenhagen University Library relating to Norwegian conditions are transferred to Norway.

Sports

Cycling

• 2129 August The 1937 UCI Track Cycling World Championships are held in Copenhagen.
• Kees Pellenaars (NED) and Frans Slaats (NED) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.

Football

• AB wins their third Danish football championship by winning the 1936–37 Danish Championship League.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 14 January – Erland Kops, badminton player (died 2017)
• 11 February Anders Bodelsenm author (died 2021)

AprilJune

• 14 June – Jørgen Leth, film director, writer, poet (died 2025)

July–September

• 24 August – Bo Christensen, film producer (died 2020)

OctoberDecember

• 3 December Søren Krarup, pastor, writer and politician (died 2023)
• 14 December Aino Kann Rasmussen, archaeologist and curator
• 29 December Ursula Munch-Petersen, ceramist

Deaths

JanuaryJune

• 8 February – Martin Borch, architect (born 1852)
• 22 March – Thorvald Aagaard, composer (born 1877)
• 7 May – Helge Rode, writer, critic and journalist (born 1870)
• 26 March Edvard Ehlers, dermatologist (born 1863)
• 23 May Frederik Tesdorpf, landowner qand politician (born 1854)
• 11 June – Agnes Slott-Møller, painter (born 1862)

JulyDecember

• 14 November Carl Hentzen, engineer (born 1863)
• 30 December – Hans Niels Andersen, businessman, founder of East Asiatic Company (born 1852)

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