Andreas Brunner (lawyer)

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Andreas B. Brunner (* 1949 in Zurich ; legal resident in Zurich, Kilchberg ZH and Ganterschwil ) is a Swiss lawyer . He was the Chief Public Prosecutor of the Canton of Zurich from 2005 to 2014 .

Life

The son of a lawyer grew up in Zurich and Uitikon and studied law at the Universities of Lausanne and Zurich . After the licentiate he worked as PR consultants. In 1978 he did his doctorate with Manfred Rehbinder at the University of Zurich. In 1979 he joined the Zurich adult criminal prosecutor as a district attorney. In 1990 he became a public prosecutor and in 2000 a member of the management team. At the beginning of 2005 he took over the newly created office of Chief Public Prosecutor in the course of the reorganization of the law enforcement authorities and replaced Hansruedi Müller, who had headed the investigating and prosecuting authorities as 1st public prosecutor. Brunner retired at the end of February 2014, followed by Beat Oppliger. Brunner was President of the Conference of Law Enforcement Authorities in Switzerland (KSBS) (new name Swiss Public Prosecutor's Conference (SSK)), followed by Rolf Grädel in mid-January 2014 .

From 1986 to 1994, Brunner was a non-party member of Kilchberg ZH municipal council . From 2000 to 2006 he was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Zurich Children's and Youth Homes Foundation , of which he was President from 2005 to 2006. Since 2009 he has been Vice President of the Children and Violence Foundation .

Brunner was a major in the Swiss Army . He has two children, including the playwright Katja Brunner , and lives in Zurich. From 2015 to 2019 he wrote the monthly column “Tatort.ch” in the SonntagsZeitung on topics of criminal law .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Andreas B. Brunner: The extraordinary termination of the employment contract under Swiss compared to German law (=  writings on Swiss labor law . Issue 8). Stämpfli, Bern 1979, ISBN 3-7272-0608-X ( dissertation , University of Zurich, 1978).
  2. ↑ Edgar Schuler: A jovial patron tracks down Christoph Blocher. In: Tages-Anzeiger of March 24, 2012
  3. ↑ a b c Andreas Brunner. In: databot.ch, accessed on March 24, 2012 (archive)
  4. ↑ a b Dario Venutti: The boss . Portrait in: Tages-Anzeiger from May 31, 2012
  5. ↑ a b c Brigitte Hürlimann: The end of an eventful era. Andreas Brunner resigns from the prosecutor's stage. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from February 21, 2014
  6. ↑ a b c Lukas Häuptli: A public prosecutor like from a picture book. In: Tages-Anzeiger from January 7, 2005
  7. ↑ Personnel changes with regard to the reorganization of the law enforcement authorities. ( Memento of January 27, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Press release, April 2004
  8. ↑ The case workers named so far as district attorneys have been called public prosecutors since 2005, see information on revision ( memento of February 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Directorate of Justice and Home Affairs.
  9. ↑ Neue Zürcher Zeitung of May 8, 2004, No. 83, p. 55.
  10. ↑ Public prosecutors want to search the Internet with pictures. In: Blick.ch / sda from November 25, 2013
  11. ↑ Daniel Gerny, Erich Aschwanden: The public prosecutors complain about overload. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from October 1, 2012
  12. ↑ Board of Trustees on the website of the Foundation for Children and Violence. Retrieved November 25, 2019.
  13. ↑ Katja Baigger: "Why was there never a public apology?" In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from April 6, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Brunner, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brunner, Andreas B.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss lawyer, Chief Public Prosecutor of the Canton of Zurich (Switzerland)
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich