Dave Gerlach


David Fredrick Gerlach 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, 1968, 1969, 1970 and 1972. Before becoming a police officer, Gerlach was a farmer in Stettler, Alberta. He returned to Stettler to farm in the 1970s, and worked as a car salesman. In 1981, he started a business selling pictures.
Gerlach was married twice and had three daughters.