Franz-Hermann Brüner

Franz -Hermann Bruner ( 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 was supposed to run until 2010.

Life

After graduation in 1968 Bruner completed a three-year commercial apprenticeship in Darmstadt and studied from 1971 to 1976 law, economics and political science at the University of Munich. Afterwards he worked until 1979 for three years as a law clerk at the Bavarian Ministry of Justice. From 1979 to 1981 he was investigative and criminal judge at the District Court of Weilheim in Oberbayern, after two years prosecutor in Munich. From 1983 to 1986 he worked as deputy head of the Criminal Law of the Federal Ministry of Justice in Bonn from 1986 to 1989 judges in criminal and civil matters at the District Court of Weilheim in Oberbayern.

This was followed by work as chief prosecutor and deputy head of the Criminal Law in Munich (1989-1991), as chief prosecutor in the workgroup government crime in Berlin (1991-1993), head of department at the Saxon State Ministry of Justice (1993-1995) and as Chief Prosecutor at the Prosecutor General in Munich (1995-1996).

From 1996 to 1998 Bruner served as chief prosecutor Unit Economic Crime and Corruption in the Munich public prosecutor. He was head of the fraud unit to the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina in Bosnia and Herzegovina between April 1998 and February 2000. The management of the European Anti-Fraud Office was mainly overshadowed by an often criticized as not comprehensible personnel policy, which is said to have frequently violated the Staff Regulations of officials of the European Commission.

Awards

• 2009: Grand Gold Medal with Star for Services to the Republic of Austria
• 2009: European Medal of the Free State of Bavaria

Quotes

• The EU gets their money in a very different way as a city and there are also different. She is so written that it just has to come to abuse on the revenue and on the expenditure side.
• The more complicated rules are, the smaller the number of those who have intimated and the greater the number of those who circumvent the rules.
• Today is the big fraud case is no longer national. The knitted European. Internal market also means that there is a single crime.