Michael Gerdes

Michael Gerdes (born 23 May 1960) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2009 to 2025.^[1]

Michael Gerdes
Michael Gerdes in 2020
Member of the Bundestag
In office 2009–2025
Personal details
Born	(1960-05-23) 23 May 1960 (age 65) Bottrop, West Germany (now Germany)
Political party	SPD

Political career

Gerdes joined the SPD in 1976 and later became a board member of the local SPD branch in Boverheide. He has been a member of the Bottrop city council since 1994. There he became deputy chairman of his parliamentary group and chairman of the sports and pools committee.^[2] He is also a member of the regional council of the Münster administrative district. Until 2017 he was also sub-district chairman of the SPD Bottrop.^[3]

Member of the German Parliament, 2009–2025

Gerdes first became a member of the Bundestag after the 2009 German federal election.^[4] From 2009 he was a directly elected member of the Bundestag for constituency 125 (Bottrop, Gladbeck and Dorsten) and was re-elected to the Bundestag in 2013, 2017 and 2021.^[5]

In parliament, Gerdes served as a member of the Committee for Labour and Social Affairs.^[6]

In early 2024, Gerdes announced that he would not stand in the 2025 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.^[7]