With over fifty years of continuous council membership, he is the longest-serving politician of the Netherlands and one of its last communist councilors.
[1] Visser was born in 1938 in Lemmer and came into contact with communist ideology at an early age through his father.
[2] 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.
In addition to his council membership, Visser writes a column for Manifest, the monthly newspaper of the NCPN.