1915 in Denmark

Events from the year 1915 in Denmark.

← 1914 1913 1912 1915 in Denmark → 1916 1917 1918
Decades:	1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s
See also:	Other events of 1915 List of years in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian X^[1]
• Prime minister – Carl Theodor Zahle

Events

5 June: A deputation of women visits Amalienborg.

Some of the founders of the Society for Better Building Practices photographed during the founding meeting in Odense in June 1915

• 7 May – A Folketing election is held. As required to change the Constitution, the government called for the dissolution of both the Folketing and the Landsting in order for the new Rigsdag to be able to introduce the new constitution.
• 5 June – Women's suffrage is introduced in Denmark, women are given the right to vote in Rigsdag elections.^[2]
• 27 June – Bedre Byggeskik, a late Danish incarnation of the Arts and Crafts Movement, is founded at a meeting in Odense as a reaction against the impoverished state of Danish architecture which they found to be a consequence of the Historicist style which had dominated the past decades.

Sports

• February – Boldklubben Skjold is founded.

Births

• 22 January – Ole Berntsen, sailor (died 1996)
• 26 August – Niels Macholm, painter and graphic artist (died in 1997)
• 21 September – Hanne Budtz, politician and lawyer (died 2004)^[3]
• 12 December – Tobias Faber, architect (died 2010)

Deaths

January–March

• 12 January – Caroline Hammer, photographer (born 1832)
• 13 January – Barclay Raunkiær, Arabia explorer, author (born 1889)
• 6 February – Niels Steenberg, engineer (born 1839)
• 11 March – Vilhelm Rosenstand, artist (born 1838)

July–September

• 8 September – Julius Villiam Gudmand-Høyer, author (born 1841)
• 11 September – Jens Birkholm, genre and landscape painter associated with the Funen Painters (born 1869)

October–December

• 20 December – Carl Locher, painter (born 1851)