Jaap Pop
{{Short description|Dutch politician (born 1941)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2019}}
{{infobox officeholder
| image=Portret van burgemeester Pop t.g.v. zijn fotoreportage over Cannes. NL-HlmNHA 54037317.JPG
| caption = Jaap Pop (1997)
| birth_name = Jacobus Johannes Hermanus Pop
| birth_place = Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands
| birth_date= {{birth_date and age|df=yes|23 June 1941}}
| party = Labour Party
| office1 = Mayor of Franeker
| term_start1 = 1975
| term_end1= 1981
| office2= Mayor of Tiel
| term_start2 = 1981
| term_end2 = 1988
| office3 = Mayor of Alkmaar
| term_start3 = 1988
| term_end3 = 1995
| office4 =Mayor of Haarlem
| term_start4 = 1995
| term_end4 = 2006
| father = Herman Pop
}}
Jacobus Johannes Hermanus (Jaap) Pop (born 23 June 1941, Alphen aan den Rijn) is a former Dutch politician. Pop is a member of the Labour Party.
Early life
Pop was born as one of three sons in 1941 in Alphen aan den Rijn.{{cite web|url=https://www.konhfc.nl/index.php?page=666|title=Jaap Pop|publisher=Koninklijke HFC|accessdate=23 March 2019|archive-date=23 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190323141410/https://www.konhfc.nl/index.php?page=666|language=Dutch}} His father is Herman Pop who was a member of the Christian Historical Union party and served as mayor of Dinteloord between 1946 and 1973. Pop went on to study jurisprudence in Utrecht.
Career
File:Burgemeester Pop fotografeert premier Wim Kok bij de landelijke 1 mei-viering van de PvdA in het concertgebouw. NL-HlmNHA 54036198.JPG at a Labour party conference in Haarlem on 1 May 1995.]]
Pop served as mayor of several cities between 1975 and 2006. Pop succeeded Jan Dijkstra as mayor of Franeker in 1975. In 1981 he became the mayor of Tiel and he served in that position until 1988. He was the mayor of Alkmaar between 1988 and 1995. In 1995 he succeeded Elizabeth Schmitz as mayor of Haarlem.
Pop retired in 2006 and he was succeeded by Bernt Schneiders as mayor of Haarlem.
In 2004, he became Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau.{{cite news|title=Koninklijke onderscheidingen voor Bauer en Borsato|date=30 April 2004|work=Leidsch Dagblad|page=22}}
In 2008, he played the role of mayor in the film Ver van familie.
In 2016, Pop's work as mayor of Haarlem was part of an exhibition on Haarlem's mayors at Museum Haarlem, which also included former mayors Elizabeth Schmitz, Jan Reehorst and Bernt Schneiders.{{cite web|url=https://www.haarlemsdagblad.nl/cnt/dmf20180925_76757873/vier-decennia-haarlemse-burgervaders|title=Vier decennia Haarlemse burgervaders|first=Richard|last=Stekelenburg|date=30 August 2016|publisher=Haarlems Dagblad|accessdate=8 March 2019|language=Dutch}}
References
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External links
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