| Michael Gerdes | |
| Office: | Member of the Bundestag |
| Term Start: | 2009 |
| Birth Date: | 1960 5, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Bottrop, West Germany |
| Party: | SPD |
| Nationality: | German |
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.[1]
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]
Gerdes first became a member of the Bundestag after the 2009 German federal election.[4] 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.[5]
In parliament, Gerdes has been serving 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]