Friedrich Gerdes (12 December 1910 – 19 October 1960) was a German athlete.
He competed in the men's javelin throw at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
[1] Gerdes was working as a policeman at the time and he was the German Police Champion in 1939.
Gerdes had reached the finals of the javelin throw at the 1936 Summer Olympic and was placed seventeenth and last.
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