Josef Brunner

{{Short description|German politician}}

{{Expand German|topic=gov|date=July 2009|Josef Brunner (MdB)}}

Josef Brunner (12 August 1928 – 25 January 2012{{cite web|url=http://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/datenhandbuch/24/24_02.html|title=Verzeichnis der Mitglieder des Deutschen Bundestages und Personenverzeichnis|publisher=German Bundestag|language=de|access-date=8 March 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120828023548/http://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/datenhandbuch/24/24_02.html|archive-date=28 August 2012}}) was a German politician,{{cite news|url=https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/parteivize-vergleicht-pauli-mit-sektenchefin/3311482.html|title=Brunner verlässt Freie Union: Parteivize vergleicht Pauli mit Sektenchefin|date=November 25, 2009|work=Handelsblatt|language=de|access-date=25 September 2011}} representative of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria. From 1980 to 1987 and also May–October 1990, he was a member of the German Bundestag.