{{EngvarB|date=April 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} [[File:500px photo (26024383).jpeg|thumb|Andreas Derleth at the Auckland Pride Parade in Ponsonby in 2013]]
'''Andreas Derleth''' is a German-New Zealand winner of Mr Gay New Zealand 2012 in Auckland and Mr Gay World 2012 in Johannesburg.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gaynz.com/articles/publish/2/article_11406.php |title=GayNZ.com Hunky Andreas Derleth wins Mr Gay NZ 2012 |work=gaynz.com |year=2012 |accessdate=28 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120216213744/http://www.gaynz.com/articles/publish/2/article_11406.php |archive-date=16 February 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gayexpress.co.nz/2012/02/get-it-on-big-gay-out-6/ |title=Get it On! Big Gay Out | Express Online |work=gayexpress.co.nz |year=2012 |accessdate=28 April 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120515151359/http://www.gayexpress.co.nz/2012/02/get-it-on-big-gay-out-6/ |archivedate=15 May 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gXItxzZvq3O1r_xZDqD8mOHoCKhg?docId=d16af74473fe4261b3f5bf76781cb3d7 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120411203313/http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gXItxzZvq3O1r_xZDqD8mOHoCKhg?docId=d16af74473fe4261b3f5bf76781cb3d7 |url-status= dead |archive-date= 11 April 2012 |title=The Associated Press: Mr Gay World comes to Africa |work=Google News |year=2012 |access-date=28 April 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.3news.co.nz/Kiwi-crowned-Mr-Gay-World/tabid/423/articleID/249750/Default.aspx |title=Kiwi crowned Mr Gay World |work=3news.co.nz |year=2012 |accessdate=28 April 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10797837 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120411084446/http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10797837 |url-status= dead |archive-date= 11 April 2012 |title=Aucklander judged top gay man in the world |work=The New Zealand Herald |year=2012 |accessdate=28 April 2012 }}</ref>
After attending Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University in Heidenheim, Germany, Derleth moved to New Zealand in 2008, becoming a manager at Warehouse Stationery in Auckland.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nz.linkedin.com/pub/andreas-derleth/11/587/62|title=Andreas Derleth – New Zealand | LinkedIn|work=nz.linkedin.com|year=2012|accessdate=28 April 2012|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120712120057/http://nz.linkedin.com/pub/andreas-derleth/11/587/62|archive-date=12 July 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> In October 2014 Derleth became General Manager for Wireless Nation Limited.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://wirelessnation.co.nz/about-wireless-nation/the-team|title = About Us}}</ref>
The Mr Gay NZ is judged as part of the Big Gay Out run by the New Zealand AIDS Foundation in Auckland, which attracted Prime Minister John Key and other politicians. The 2012 entrants included Sylvain Taupenas, Aaron Gordon and Marcus Fenson (Mr Gay Wellington).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gayexpress.co.nz/2012/02/get-it-on-big-gay-out-6/ |title=Get it On! Big Gay Out | Express Online |work=gayexpress.co.nz |year=2012 |accessdate=28 April 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120515151359/http://www.gayexpress.co.nz/2012/02/get-it-on-big-gay-out-6/ |archivedate=15 May 2012 }}</ref>
Derleth has also featured on the cover of ''Gay Express'', a New Zealand Gay newspaper.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://twitter.com/expressNZ/status/189470510650888192 |title=Twitter / @expressNZ: Andreas Derleth, our hunky ... |via=Twitter |year=2012 |accessdate=28 April 2012}}</ref>
In 2016, Derleth was a judge for Mr Gay World.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.gaynz.com/articles/publish/2/article_18187.php |title=Andreas Derleth celebrity judge for Mr Gay World |access-date=28 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170328195416/http://www.gaynz.com/articles/publish/2/article_18187.php |archive-date=28 March 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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