Jos van der Lans

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jos van der Lans
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Apr 2, 1954(1954-04-02)
Age	70
Birthplace	Breda
Country	Netherlands
Horoscope	Aries

Jos van der Lans Biography

Jos van der Lans is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on April 2, 1954 in Breda, Netherlands. Josephus Johannes Maria (Jos) van der Lans (born 2 April 1954 in Breda) is a journalist, cultural psychologist and writer. Between the years 1999-2007,, he was a member of the Dutch Senate for GreenLeft

Between 1990 until between 1990 and Van der Lans was full-time freelancer, operating his own advice agency, that was part of the (semi-)public sector. From 1991 to 1994, he was employed by De Volkskrant, a major left-of-center daily. He was director of its opinion and discussion section “Forum”. He also worked for Tijdschrift voor de Sociale Sector and other magazines of the public sector that are semi-public. In 1993, he left De Volkskrant and worked De Groene Amsterdammer which was an upcoming left-wing weekly (between 1993 to 1999) and also for Vrij Nederland, another leftwing weekly (between 2001 to 2004). In Vrij Nederland He edited the discussion and opinion pages “Burning Issues”. He also wrote an article in the Tijdschrift voor social the vraagstukken (since 1994) as well as the magazine for parents that was weekly J/M (between 1997 to 1999). He continued to work in the de Helling magazine as editor. In the years 1995-2000,, he was also a member of the board of directors of the GreenLeft thought-provoking think tank.

Between 1999 and 2007 Van der Lans was a member of the GreenLeft parliamentary party in the Dutch Senate. He spoke on a range of issues: transport, public works and water management; housing, spatial planning and the environment; culture and economic affairs. Between 2003 and 2007 he chaired the parliamentary committee on Transport, Public Works and Water Management. He voted against his own parliamentary party on the parliamentary approval of the marriage between Willem-Alexander en Máxima Zorreguieta out of republican sentiments.

In 2005 Van der Lans wrote Koning Burger (King Citizen) a critical analysis of the relationship between government and citizen. It was followed by Ontregelen (De-regulate) on the position of professionals in the (semi-)public sector. Van der Lans continues to work as a freelancer. He writes several columns: for the magazine of Aedes (the federation of public housing agencies), for DANS (the magazine of the centre for amateur dancing) and the GreenLeft magazine.

Since 1981, Van der Lans started to become a journalist. At first, he worked as a freelancer with the journal Jeugd en Samenleving (Youth and Society). In 1982-87,, he edited the journal Marge which is a monthly journal of social work. From 1983 to 1984,, he was a part-time psychologist at Nijmegen’s Advanced School in Nijmegen. In 1987, he was the assistant editor in chief and later the editor in chief of Welzijnseweekblad which is the weekly journal for social work as well as Tijdschrift voor de Sociale Sector the other journal that focuses focused on social work. Between 1987 and the year 1995,, he contributed to De Helling (The Slope) which is the quarterly of think tanks from three political parties: CPN and The Pacifist Socialist Party and the Political Party of Radicals. The parties merged in 1989 and create GreenLeft that Van der Lans joined. De Helling became the quarterly of the think tank of the party. In the time of this think tank, Van der Lans was also active in the civil society. He was an active member of the Board of the Catholic Youth Organization, Catholic Service Institute for Life Forming. He was also a part in the director’s board for De Helling.

Jos van der Lans Net Worth

Jos van der Lans is one of the richest Politician from Netherlands. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jos van der Lans 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Van der Lans has a Catholic background. From 1960 to 1967, he was a pupil at an Catholic secondary school, which was located at Amsterdam (until 1964) and The Hague. From 1967 to 1973, he was a student at an Catholic high school for secondary students situated in The Hague. He was a student at the Atheneum and focused on sciences. From 1973 to 1981, he was a psychology student at the Catholic University of Nijmegen. In 1977, he took the exam for candidates (roughly equivalent to an undergraduate degree) In 1981, he passed his doctoral examination (roughly equivalent to an advanced degree. Van der Lans specialized in the psychology of culture and religion. He also completed additional courses in education and communication studies. The doctoral thesis he wrote was on “Youth Culture, Provo and the Youth Movement” . From 1979 to 1981, he completed classes to become a professor in the fields of science and civics. In 1977-81,, he was a student assistant on the department of social sciences in various departments. From 1977 to 1983, he was a journalist for the magazine that was published quarterly Psychologie & Maatschappij (Psychology and Society).

As a student, Van der Lans was active in the student protests and within university politics. In the years 1975-77,, he was the chair of the Nijmegen Student Union and between 1977 and 1978 he served as the student representative on the Board of Directors for the psychology subfaculty. In 1978, Van der Lans joined the Communist Party of the Netherlands but he resigned in 1986, citing internal struggle that were the cause of the decline of the party.

Since 1994 Van der Lans has pled, together with Paul Kuypers in their Modern Paternalisme (Modern Paternalisme), against the culture of non-interference in social work. Social workers should intervene actively in the life of their clients without becoming moralist (as in the 1950s) or overly persistent (as in the 1970s). According to Van der Lans this culture of non-intervention is a result of the larger scale of social work and the increased respect for privacy of citizens. Professionals such as teachers, policemen and social workers, should according to Van der Lans be freed from the increased bureaucracy in the public sector. In the eyes of Van der Lans, the increased bureaucracy is a result of the larger demand of the transparency in the civil service from the politics. When professionals free themselves from bureaucracy they can orient themselves to their work on the “front lines of society”. They should interfere in the life of their clients with a “right at it”-mentality.

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