Jan Reehorst


Jan Reehorst is a former 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. 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.
In 2013 he received the Willem Drees-penning award for 65 years of continuous membership of the Labour Party. 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.