Michael Gerdes

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Michael Gerdes
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Michael Gerdes in 2020
Member of the Bundestag
In office
2009–2025
Personal details
Born (1960-05-23) 23 May 1960 (age 64)
Bottrop, West Germany
(now Germany)
Political party SPD

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]

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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]

References

  1. ↑ "Michael Gerdes | Abgeordnetenwatch". www.abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). Retrieved 19 March 2020.
  2. ↑ "Michael Gerdes › Michael Gerdes MdB" (in German). Retrieved 9 November 2023.
  3. ↑ "Michael Gerdes › Michael Gerdes MdB" (in German). Retrieved 9 November 2023.
  4. ↑ "Michael Gerdes, MdB". SPD-Bundestagsfraktion (in German). 27 June 2011. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
  5. ↑ "Michael Gerdes › Michael Gerdes MdB" (in German). Retrieved 9 November 2023.
  6. ↑ "German Bundestag – Labour and Social Affairs". German Bundestag. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
  7. ↑ Matthias Düngelhoff (13 April 2024), Bundestagswahl: SPD Gladbeck legt bei Kandidatenkür vor Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung .


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