Michael Gerdes | |
|---|---|
 Michael Gerdes in 2020 | |
| Member of the Bundestag | |
| Assumed office 2009 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 23 May 1960 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 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]
Bottrop – Recklinghausen III is an electoral constituency represented in the Bundestag. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 124. It is located in the Ruhr region of North Rhine-Westphalia, comprising the city of Bottrop and western parts of the Recklinghausen district.
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