Michael Gerdes
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{{Short description|German politician (born 1960)}}
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| name = Michael Gerdes
| office = Member of the Bundestag
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| caption = Michael Gerdes in 2020
| term_start = 2009
| term_end = 2025
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1960|5|23}}
| birth_place = Bottrop, West Germany
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| party = SPD
| nationality = German
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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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.abgeordnetenwatch.de/profile/michael-gerdes|title=Michael Gerdes {{!}} Abgeordnetenwatch|website=www.abgeordnetenwatch.de|language=de|access-date=19 March 2020}}
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.{{Cite web |title=Michael Gerdes › Michael Gerdes MdB |url=https://www.michaelgerdes-mdb.de/personen/michael-gerdes/ |access-date=2023-11-09 |language=de-DE}} 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.{{Cite web |title=Michael Gerdes › Michael Gerdes MdB |url=https://www.michaelgerdes-mdb.de/personen/michael-gerdes/ |access-date=2023-11-09 |language=de-DE}}
=Member of the German Parliament, 2009–2025=
Gerdes first became a member of the Bundestag after the 2009 German federal election.{{Cite web|url=https://www.spdfraktion.de/abgeordnete/gerdes|title=Michael Gerdes, MdB|date=27 June 2011|website=SPD-Bundestagsfraktion|language=de|access-date=19 March 2020}} 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.{{Cite web |title=Michael Gerdes › Michael Gerdes MdB |url=https://www.michaelgerdes-mdb.de/personen/michael-gerdes/ |access-date=2023-11-09 |language=de-DE}}
In parliament, Gerdes served as a member of the Committee for Labour and Social Affairs.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bundestag.de/en/committees/a11|title=German Bundestag – Labour and Social Affairs|website=German Bundestag|language=en|access-date=19 March 2020}}
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.Matthias Düngelhoff (13 April 2024), [https://www.waz.de/staedte/gladbeck/article242090182/Bundestagswahl-SPD-Gladbeck-legt-bei-Kandidatenkuer-vor.html Bundestagswahl: SPD Gladbeck legt bei Kandidatenkür vor] Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung.
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External links
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- {{Official website|https://www.michaelgerdes-mdb.de/}} {{in lang|de}}
- [https://www.bundestag.de/en/members/gerdes_michael-519708 Bundestag biography] {{in lang|en}}
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