Franz-Hermann Brüner

Franz-Hermann Brüner (born September 14, 1945 in Bad Nauheim ; † January 9, 2010 in Munich ) was Director General of the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) . He headed the office since March 1, 2000, his term of office should have run until 2010.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1968, Brüner completed a three-year commercial apprenticeship in Darmstadt and then studied law, economics and political science at the University of Munich from 1971 to 1976 . He then worked for three years as a trainee lawyer at the Bavarian Ministry of Justice until 1979. From 1979 to 1981 he was an investigative and criminal judge at the Weilheim district court in Upper Bavaria , after which he was a public prosecutor in Munich for two years . From 1983 to 1986 he worked as deputy head of the criminal law department at the Federal Ministry of Justice in Bonn. From 1986 to 1989 he was judge in criminal and civil matters at the Weilheim district court in Upper Bavaria.

This was followed by work as senior public prosecutor and deputy head of the criminal law department in Munich (1989-1991), as senior public prosecutor in the government crime working group in Berlin (1991-1993), as head of department at the Saxon State Ministry of Justice (1993-1995) and as senior public prosecutor at the General Public Prosecutor's Office in Munich (1995–1996).

From 1996 to 1998, Brüner was senior public prosecutor in charge of the economic crime and corruption department at the Munich public prosecutor's office. From April 1998 to February 2000 he was head of the anti-fraud unit at the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina in Bosnia-Herzegovina . The management of the European Anti-Fraud Office was overshadowed above all by a personnel policy, which is often criticized as incomprehensible and which is said to have in many cases violated the statute for officials of the European Commission.

Awards

Quotes

The EU gets its money in a completely different way than a city and spends it differently. It is written in such a way that there must simply be abuse on both the income and expenditure side.
The more complicated regulations become, the smaller the number of those who can still see through, and the greater the number of those who circumvent the rules.
Today the great fraud case is no longer national. It is knitted in Europe. Internal market also means that there is internal crime.

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Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Brüner, Franz-Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer, Director General of the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF)
DATE OF BIRTH	September 14, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bad Nauheim
DATE OF DEATH	January 9, 2010
Place of death	Munich

[1] List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)

[2] Brüner interview of November 13, 2003 in: Die Zeit