Jan Reehorst | |
Party: | Labour Party |
Office: | Municipal council of Rotterdam |
Term Start: | 1953 |
Term End: | 1973 |
Office1: | House of Representatives |
Term Start1: | 1956 |
Term End1: | 1967 |
Office2: | Mayor of Velsen |
Term Start2: | 1973 |
Term End2: | 1977 |
Office3: | Mayor of Haarlem |
Term Start3: | 1977 |
Term End3: | 1984 |
Birth Date: | 21 March 1923 |
Birth Place: | Rotterdam, Netherlands |
Death Place: | Haarlem, Netherlands |
Jan Reehorst (21 March 1923 – 4 June 2024) was a Dutch politician.
Reehorst became a member of the Labour Party in 1946. From 1953 until 1973, he was member of the municipal council of Rotterdam.[1] Between 1956 and 1967, he was a member of the House of Representatives. In 1973, he became mayor of Velsen and from 1977 till 1984 he was mayor of Haarlem.[1]
In 2013, he received the Willem Drees-penning award for 65 years of continuous membership of the Labour Party.[2] In 2016, Reehorst's work as mayor of Haarlem was part of an exhibition on Haarlem's mayors at Museum Haarlem, which also included former mayors Elisabeth Schmitz, Jaap Pop and Bernt Schneiders.[1]
Reehorst turned 100 in March 2023,[3] and died in Haarlem on 4 June 2024, at the age of 101.[4] [5]