Jens Lauritzen (born December 3, 1953) is a Danish politician who has been Mayor of the

Vesthimmerland Municipality Vesthimmerland Municipality or Vesthimmerlandøs Municipality is a municipality ( da, kommune) in the North Jutland Region in Denmark. It covers an area of 768,08 km² (2013) and has a total population of 38,277 inhabitants (2008). The Munici ...

from 2006 to 2010, he is/was from Venstre. Lauritzen is educated in agriculture. Since 1981 he has been an independent farmer, but has also worked as a supervisor in a construction company. He began his political career as a member of Løgstør Municipal Council in Løgstør in 1986. He became mayor of

Løgstør Municipality A former municipality (Danish, '' kommune'') in Region Nordjylland on the Jutland Peninsula in northern Denmark. The municipality, including the island of Livø, covered an area of , and had a total population of 10,270 (2005). Its last mayor ...

in 1998. When the

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality ...

in 2006 was merged with neighboring municipalities as a result of the municipal reform, he became the first mayor of the new

. In addition to his political posts, Jens Lauritzen has had several board posts, including In Aalborg Airport and in Himmerland's Cooperative Agriculture Associations. He has 3 children with Birthe Lauritzen, one of whom is parliamentary member

Karsten Lauritzen Karsten Styrbæk Lauritzen (born 14 October 1983 in Løgstør) is a former Danish politician, who was a member of the Folketing for the Venstre political party. He was first elected into parliament in the 2007 Danish general election and left the ...

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