Rinze Visser

Rinze Visser (18 December 1938) is a Dutch communist politician and former councilor for the New Communist Party of the Netherlands (NCPN) in the municipality of De Fryske Marren. With over 55 years of continuous council membership, he has been the longest-serving politician of the Netherlands and one of its last communist councilors.

Career Visser was born in 1938 in Lemmer and came into contact with communist ideology at an early age through his father. Visser became a member of the Communist Party of the Netherlands (CPN) in 1958 at the age of 21 and was first elected to the municipal council of Lemsterland in 1970. In 1978, Visser visited the German Democratic Republic with a CPN delegation and met Erich Honecker.

Visser became a member of the League of Communists in the Netherlands (, VCN) in 1985, a split from the CPN that did not agree with the CPN's change of course in the late 1980s. In particular, Visser opposes the movement within the CPN that wanted the party to merge into a broad progressive movement. In 2018, the NCPN went on to win an additional seat for Sake Barelds, though this seat was lost in the following election.

Visser stood as a candidate for the House of Representatives several times. In 1986 as number two of the VCN and in 1989 as its lijsttrekker. Visser again became the lead candidate on behalf of the NCPN in 1994. In 1998 and 2003 he was placed respectively third and fifth on the ballot.

In addition to his council membership, Visser wrote a column for Manifest, the monthly newspaper of the NCPN. Before his retirement, Visser worked in shipping.

In November 2025, Visser indicated that due to ill health, as he suffers from the progressive lung disease COPD, he would not stand for reelection in the 2026 Dutch municipal elections. The NCPN, in turn, announced that it would not participate in the elections because it could not find a suitable successor to Visser.