Hardy Henningsen–Anker Høyer Colleagueship

Hardy Henningsen and Anker Høyer are linked as police colleagues whose relationship emerges through shared work and a small number of remembered encounters. Their connection is not presented as an uncomplicated friendship: a 2005 dinner places them together in Carl Mørck’s circle, while Hardy’s later account casts Anker as a possible participant in the shooting that left Hardy permanently injured and killed Anker.

Colleagues and Shared Work

At a press conference more than seven years after the events of January 26, 2007, officials connected the murder of Anker Høyer, the permanent physical damage suffered by Hardy Henningsen, and the shooting of Carl Mørck. They stated that all three crimes had been committed with the same weapon, which was then in police possession. Hardy could not attend because he remained deeply affected by the episode. Their shared professional world is thus marked by a violent case that placed them on opposite sides of its consequences: Anker was dead, Hardy was still living with lasting physical effects, and the weapon had become tangible evidence of the events that bound them.

A Shared Social Circle

A memory of Carl Mørck’s birthday in 2005 offers a more ordinary glimpse of Hardy and Anker together. Carl recalled that he, Hardy, and Anker had gone to Montparnasse for an abundant roast-pork meal, hoping to celebrate while Carl was grieving the recent departure of his wife, Vigga. During the evening, a drunken man sat down at their table and tugged at Anker’s sleeve. After Anker slapped him, Carl and Hardy separated the men and, with help from a waiter, escorted the stranger outside. The incident shows Hardy and Anker sharing a social setting and a moment of collective intervention, but it does not establish that they were close friends.

Hardy’s Later Suspicion

When Hardy later returned to the Amager shooting, he told Carl that he had long suspected Anker had some part in it and that he was now more convinced than ever. He said there was one thing he still needed to add to the story, leaving the substance of that addition undisclosed in this exchange. The admission complicates the earlier image of colleagues acting together: Hardy’s recollection makes Anker not only a fellow officer and companion at Carl’s birthday dinner, but also a person whose possible role in the shooting Hardy had privately questioned. The evidence presented here records Hardy’s suspicion, not a confirmation of Anker’s responsibility.