Dave Gerlach

{{Short description|Canadian curler}}

{{Use Canadian English|date=April 2024}}

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{{Infobox curler

| name = Dave Gerlach

| birth_name =

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1940|7|2}}

| birth_place =

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2020|10|22|1940|7|2}}

| death_place = Calgary, Alberta

| Brier appearances = 1 ({{Brier|1969}})

| World Championship appearances = 1 ({{WMCC|1969}})

| medaltemplates =

{{MedalSport | Men's curling }}

{{MedalCountry | {{CAN}} }}

{{MedalCompetition | World Curling Championships }}

{{MedalGold | 1969 Perth | }}

{{MedalCountry | {{AB}} }}

{{MedalCompetition | Macdonald Brier }}

{{MedalGold | 1969 Oshawa | }}

}}

David Fredrick Gerlach{{cite news|title=Larry Wood|date=March 6, 1969|page=36|newspaper=Calgary Herald|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48907681/calgary-herald/|accessdate=April 17, 2020}} (July 2, 1940 – October 22, 2020){{cite web |title=Obituary of David Frederick Gerlach {{!}} Stettler Funeral Home & Crematorium |url=https://stettlerfuneralhome.com/tribute/details/4169/David-Gerlach/obituary.html |website=stettlerfuneralhome.com |access-date=23 October 2021}} was a Canadian curler. He played as the third on the Ron Northcott rink that won the 1969 Brier and World Championship.

Gerlach was the son of Fritz and Ida Gerlach, and grew up in the Stettler, Alberta area, and graduated high school from the Botha School in Botha, Alberta.

Gerlach was a police officer with the Calgary Police Service when he won the Canadian Police Curling Championship in 1967,{{cite news|title=Dave Gerlach Misses Brier But Wins National Title|date=March 1, 1967|page=14|newspaper=Ottawa Citizen|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48906035/the-ottawa-journal/|accessdate=April 17, 2020}} 1968, 1969, 1970 and 1972.{{cite news| last = Patton| first = Paul |title=Gerlach's Alberta curlers win Police championship| work = The Globe and Mail |date= 16 March 1972| page = 44}} Before becoming a police officer, Gerlach was a farmer in Stettler, Alberta.{{cite news|title=Young Gerlach Dethrones Gervais|date=February 12, 1966|page=27|newspaper=Edmonton Journal|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48907147/edmonton-journal/|accessdate=April 17, 2020}} He returned to Stettler to farm in the 1970s,{{cite news|title=Higgs cops curling crown|date=February 20, 1974|page=65|newspaper=Edmonton Journal|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48906782/edmonton-journal/|accessdate=April 17, 2020}} and worked as a car salesman. In 1981, he started a business selling pictures.

Gerlach was married twice and had three daughters.