Instead, Hitler appointed Goebbels Reich Chancellor ; Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz, who was at Flensburg near the Danish border, Reich President ; and Martin Bormann, Hitler's long-time chief of staff, Party Minister.

Wilhelm became Grand Admiral of the German Navy, but also was awarded honorific titles from all over Europe, becoming admiral in the British, Russian, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Greek navies.

As British public opinion was turned against Germany, Admiral Sir John Fisher twice – in 1904 and 1908 – proposed using Britain ’ s current naval superiority to ' Copenhagen ' the German fleet, that is, to launch preemptive strikes against the Kiel and Wilhelmshaven naval bases as the Royal Navy had done against the Danish navy in 1801 and 1807.

Finally, two events occurred in rapid succession that destroyed the alliance completely: first, in July 1800, the British seized a Danish frigate, prompting Paul to close the British trading factories in St. Petersburg as well as impound British ships and cargo ; second, even though the allies resolved this crisis, Paul could not forgive the British for Admiral Nelson ’ s refusal to return Malta to the Order of St. John, and therefore to Paul, when the British captured it from the French in September 1800.

On 30 March Nelson, and his second-in-command, Rear Admiral Thomas Graves, accompanied by Captain Domett and the commanding officer of the troops, sailed in the hired lugger Lark to reconnoiter the Danish defenses at Copenhagen.

A musical work commissioned by the Admiral Danish Fleet for the 200th anniversary of the battle.

On 12 August the 32-gun Danish frigate Frederiksværn sailed for Norway from Elsinor and Admiral Lord Gambier sent the 74-gun third rate and the 22 gun sixth rate after her, even though war had not yet been declared.

In 1801, a British fleet under Admiral Parker fought a major battle, the Battle of Copenhagen, with the Danish navy in Copenhagen harbour.

British Admiral Horatio Nelson defied orders and attacked the Danish fleet in harbor at the Battle of Copenhagen, destroying much of the fleet of one of France's more steady allies during the period.

Juel later complained in a letter to the Danish Admiral of the Realm that the Dutch had not assisted him in pursuing the fleeing Swedes.

Its top authority is the Home Guard Command ( HJK ), which, unlike Army Operational Command ( HOK ), Admiral Danish Fleet ( SOK ) and Tactical Air Command ( FTK ), is managed directly by the Danish Ministry of Defence ( FMN ).

While the Danes did not employ gunboat tactics until 1807, the naval conflict between Britain and Denmark commenced with the First Battle of Copenhagen in 1801 when Horatio Nelson's squadron of Admiral Parker's fleet attacked the Danish capital.

The Danish Commander ( and later Admiral ) Steen Andersen Bille ( 1751 – 1833 ) is credited with being the driving force behind the post-1807 Dano-Norwegian strategy of gunboat warfare.

Sir Alexander Inglis Cochrane, captor of the Danish West India Islands, and next, in 1832, to his son the late Admiral Sir Thomas Inglis Cochrane, the father of Lord Lamington.

Descendants of Cort Adeler became members of a Danish noble family when Admiral Cort Adeler was converted into position of nobility on 7 February 1666.

In 1807, while Jørgensen was visiting his family, he witnessed the Battle of Copenhagen and soon afterwards was given command of a small Danish vessel, the Admiral Juul.

Just after, on the evening of 29 August, Admiral Wurmbach, Supreme Commander of the German Kriegsmarine in Denmark addressed Vice Admiral Vedel, the Commander in Chief of the Royal Danish Navy, as follows " Wir haben beide unsere Pflicht getan " ( We have both done our duty ).

In 1724 the Russians, followed in 1771 by both the Swedish navy and the Dano-Norwegian navy changed the name of the rank to Counter Admiral ( kontr-admiral in Russian, konteramiral in Swedish, kontreadmiral in Danish and Norwegian ).

The composition was commissioned by the Admiral Danish Fleet in cooperation with the Reformed Church in Copenhagen, where the premiere performance took place on 1 April.

Ulrik Christian Gyldenløve ( 1678, Samsø – December 1719 ) was a Danish navy Admiral and Governor of Iceland.

Although Frederick IV of Denmark strongly distrusted nobility, his half-brother, Ulrik Christian Gyldenløve became Lieutenant General Admiral of the Danish Fleet in 1697, ultimately going on to become Commander-in-Chief of the Navy.

During the Count's Feud (), Skram, whose reputation as a sailor was already established, was sent by the Danish government to assist Gustavus Vasa, then in alliance with Christian III against the partisans of Christian II, to organize the untried Swedish fleet ; and Skram seems, for the point is still obscure, to have shared the chief command with the Swedish Admiral Mans Some.

The Danish crime story The Rector of Veilbye by Steen Steensen Blicher was written in 1829, and the Norwegian crime novel Mordet på Maskinbygger Rolfsen (" The Murder of Engine Maker Rolfsen ") by Maurits Hansen was published in 1839.

* 1964 – Paprika Steen, Danish actress

* November 3 – Paprika Steen, Danish actress

As a result of his family's interest in art, from 1937 he attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts where he studied under Kay Fisker and Steen Eiler Rasmussen.

The plot has some parallels to that of a classical Danish novella, Brudstykker af en Landsbydegns Dagbog (" Fragments from a Parish-Clerk's Diary ") by Steen Steensen Blicher ( 1824 ).

Steen Eiler Rasmussen ( 1898 – 1990 ) was a Danish architect and urban planner who was a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and a prolific writer of books and poetry.

The earliest known crime novel is " The Rector of Veilbye " by the Danish author Steen Steensen Blicher, published in 1829.

His father was Danish and a native of Copenhagen ; " Steny " is a variant of his father's name, " Steen ", and Hoyer is an anglicized form of the fairly common Danish surname " Høyer ".

Edited, introduced and translated into Danish by Poul Steen Larsen.

* Paprika Steen, Danish actress

In 1909, Danish schoolmaster Valdemar Thoresen claimed, in an article in the magazine Maaneds, that the plot of the book had been plagiarized from Steen Blicher's story The Vicar of Weilby.

The grand old man of Danish rock, Steen Jørgensen of Sort Sol, also appeared as lead vocalist on a track of the band's 1997 EP, Some Kind Of Beautiful.

The Christmas cantata A newborn child, before eternity, God !, with text from a kontakion by the 6th century hymnographer Romanos the Melodist ( translated into Danish by the priest Kristian Høeg ) was given its first performance in 1996, commissioned by Kulturby 96 – the European Capital of Culture 1996, and was released on CD in 1997, as recorded in Messiaskirken in Charlottenlund with the soloists Ingibjörg Gudjonsdottir, soprano, Elisabeth Halling, alto, Gert Henning-Jensen, tenor, Christian Christiansen, bass, two mixed choirs, two children's choirs, brass band, organ and percussion, conducted by Steen Lindholm.

* Danish: Steen og Stoffer

On March 17, the Danish tabloid Ekstra Bladet wrote that Steen Jørgensen have been in contact with all previous Sort Sol members to arrange farewell concerts.

* Steen Steensen Blicher at Danish Wikisource

* Steen Eiler Rasmussen, Danish architect and town-planner

* Steen Rasmussen, Danish Artificial Life Scientist working in the USA

Bille August ( born 9 November 1948 ) is a Danish Academy Award winning film and television director.

* 1910 – Ejler Bille, Danish sculptor and painter ( d. 2004 )

* 1948 – Bille August, Danish film and television director

Tycho was born at his family's ancestral seat of Knutstorp Castle ( Danish: Knudstrup borg ; Swedish: Knutstorps borg ), about eight kilometres north of Svalöv in then Danish Scania, now Swedish, to Otte Brahe ( of the Brahe family ) and Beate Bille ( of the Bille family ).

Centuries later, in 1531, the cathedral was demolished by the Danish feudal overlord Eske Bille for military purposes in connection with the Protestant Reformation, and the graves of Haakon and other Norwegian kings buried there were apparently destroyed in the process.

The earliest known reference to aquavit is found in a 1531 letter from the Danish Lord of Bergenshus castle, Eske Bille to Olav Engelbrektsson, the last Roman Catholic Archbishop of Norway.

Ejler Bille ( March 6, 1910-May 1, 2004 ) was a Danish artist.

His daughter, Irene Ibsen Bille, was married to Josias Bille, a member of the Danish ancient noble Bille family.

Their son was Danish actor Joen Bille.

Directed by Danish filmmaker Bille August, the film was a huge critical success and went on to win the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival of 1988 and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film the same year.

* Zappa ( film ), a Danish coming-of-age film directed by Bille August

The company was founded by Frederick George Creed and Danish telegraph engineer Harald Bille, and was first incorporated in 1912 as " Creed, Bille & Company Limited ".

* Rasmus Bille Bahncke, Danish songwriter, record producer and musician

In 1912, working with Danish telegraph engineer Harald Bille, Creed established Creed, Bille & Company Ltd., with Bille as managing director.

Fisker transferred command of Danish forces in the Mediterranean to Bille and sailed for home.