Heiko "Ko" Wierenga (6 March 1933 – 21 September 2013) was a Dutch politician and member of the Labour Party (PvdA). He served as the Mayor of the municipality of

Enschede Enschede (; known as in the local Twents dialect) is a municipality and city in the eastern Netherlands in the province of Overijssel and in the Twente region. The eastern parts of the urban area reaches the border of the German city of Gronau ...

from September 1977 until April 1994. Under Wierenga, artwork by , called ', was installed near Enschede's town hall in 1984. Prior to becoming Mayor, Wierenga served in the House of Representatives from 1967 to 1977. He then worked for the Centraal Bureau voor de Arbeidsvoorziening as leaving the mayor's office in 1994. Wierenga was honored as a Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion on 29 April 1987. Ko Wierenga died on 21 September 2013 at the age of 80. File:Enschede The Family 01.jpg, ' (detail) in the Langestraat,

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1933 births 2013 deaths Mayors of Enschede Members of the House of Representatives (Netherlands) Knights of the Order of the Netherlands Lion Labour Party (Netherlands) politicians People from Enschede {{Netherlands-mayor-stub