1937 in Denmark

Events from the year 1937 in Denmark.

← 1936 1935 1934 1937 in Denmark → 1938 1939 1940
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	Other events of 1937 List of years in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian X^[1]
• Prime minister – Thorvald Stauning

Events

• 18 May – The state national police force Rigspolitiet – under command of one chief of police – begins operations.^[2]
• 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.^[2]

Sports

Cycling

• 21–29 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

January–March

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

April–June

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

July–September

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

October–December

• 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

• 8 February – Martin Borch, architect (born 1852)
• 22 March – Thorvald Aagaard, composer (born 1877)
• 23 March – Helge Rode, writer, critic and journalist (born 1870)
• 14 November – Carl Hentzen, engineer (born 1863)
• 30 December – Hans Niels Andersen, businessman, founder of East Asiatic Company (born 1852)