1945 in Denmark

Decades:	1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s;
See also:	Other events of 1945; List of years in Denmark

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

21 March – The British Operation Carthage, an air raid targeting the local Gestapo headquarters in the Shell Building in central Copenhagen, goes wrong and 125 Danish civilians, including 80 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.

15 January – Holger Damgaard, photographer (born 1870)
21 February – Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, sculptor (born 1863)
5 March – Albrecht Schmidt, film actor (born 1870)
30 April – Gudmund Nyeland Brandt, landscape architect (born 1878)
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)

"Christian X | king of Denmark". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
"Sønder Boulevard - Operation Carthage" (in Danish). geocaching. Retrieved 21 September 2011.
"2. Verdenskrig". Gyldendal. Retrieved 18 November 2009.

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