Svend Glendau (12 March 1910 – 27 February 1945) was a member of the Danish resistance executed by the German occupying power.
[citation needed] On 29 August 1945 Glendau and 105 other victims of the occupation were given a state funeral in the memorial park founded at the execution and burial site in Ryvangen where he was executed.
Bishop Hans Fuglsang-Damgaard led the service with participation from the royal family, the government and representatives of the resistance movement.
[5] On 19 September 1947 a memorial wall in the Copenhagen Police Headquarters with the names of 157 policemen who lost their lives during the occupation including that of Glendau was inaugurated.
[6] Similarly a memorial plaque for Glendau was mounted at the police station in Antonigade 11.