Michael Gerdes

Michael Gerdes (born 23 May 1960) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2009.

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. 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.

Member of the German Parliament, 2009–present
Gerdes first became a member of the Bundestag after the 2009 German federal election. Since 2009 he has been 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.

In parliament, Gerdes has been serving as a member of the Committee for Labour and Social Affairs.

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.