Franz-Hermann Brüner (14 September 1945 – 9 January 2010) was a German public official who served as the director-general of the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF).
[2] Brüner was born in Bad Nauheim in Hesse and began his working life as an apprentice businessman in Darmstadt in 1968.
Three years later he went to the University of Munich to study law, economics and political science, and in 1976 joined the Ministry of Justice in Bavaria to train for the judiciary.
He transferred to be public prosecutor in Munich in 1981, and because Deputy Head of the Criminal Law section of the German Federal Ministry of Justice from 1983 to 1986.
Dutch EP member Paul van Buitenen has criticized Brüner heavily on several occasions, suggesting that the fraud hunter acted less than scrupulously himself.