Henk Nijhof (born 8 April 1952) is a Dutch politician and former educator. He is a member of

GreenLeft (, ; GL) is a green political party in the Netherlands. It was formed on 1 March 1989 from the merger of four left-wing parties: the Communist Party of the Netherlands, the Pacifist Socialist Party, the Political Party of Radicals and the ...

(GroenLinks). From 2006 to 2012 he was

Party Chair In politics, a party chair (often party chairperson/-man/-woman or party president) is the presiding officer of a political party. The nature and importance of the position differs from country to country, and also between political parties. Th ...

. As a PSP politician he was a

councillor A councillor, alternatively councilman, councilwoman, councilperson, or council member, is someone who sits on, votes in, or is a member of, a council. This is typically an elected representative of an electoral district in a municipal or re ...

from 1982 to 1986. From 1994 to 2006 he was an

alderman An alderman is a member of a Municipal government, municipal assembly or council in many jurisdictions founded upon English law with similar officials existing in the Netherlands (wethouder) and Belgium (schepen). The term may be titular, denotin ...

Hengelo Hengelo (; Tweants dialect, Tweants: ) is a city in the eastern part of the Netherlands, in the Twente region, in the province of Overijssel. It is part of a larger urban area that also includes Enschede, Borne, Overijssel, Borne, Almelo and Ol ...

on behalf of GreenLeft.

References

* Equivalent article on the Dutch Wikipedia.

External links

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GreenLeft website
1952 births Living people Aldermen in Overijssel Dutch educators GroenLinks politicians Pacifist Socialist Party politicians Chairmen of GroenLinks People from Hengelo {{Netherlands-politician-stub