"Recht auf kein Kind?" – Überlegungen anlässlich der jüngsten Entscheidung des OGH zu "wrongful birth"

Vor kurzem hatte der OGH wieder einen Fall von "wrongful birth" zu entscheiden; den Eltern wurde der gesamte Unterhaltsaufwand für ihr behindert geborenes Kind zugesprochen. Ausgehend von dieser Entscheidung behandelt der folgende Beitrag die Frage, ob die Anerkennung eines Ersatzanspruches in diesem Umfang insbesondere mit Rücksicht auf den Schutzzweck des Behandlungsvertrages geboten erscheint. Daneben wird auf die nach wie vor uneinheitliche Rsp des H?chstgerichts zu "wrongful birth" einerseits und "wrongful conception" andererseits eingegangen.     

Assisted Emigration from Northern Germany to South Australia in the Nineteenth Century

Between 1848 and 1854, the Kingdom of Hanover financed emigration from the Harz mountains to South Australia. The scheme employed was exceptional; emigrants received interest-free loans and only those with a "good character" were eligible, not the destitute, criminal or "undesirable". Emigration was voluntary. The decision of the Hanoverian government to assist emigration was influenced by socio-economic developments in the Harz. Most emigrants were young, employed in mining, and of limited means. In Australia the Harz emigrants constituted about fifteen per cent of all German immigrants in the mid-nineteenth century. They settled throughout South Australia and Victoria but few joined German communities. The settlement and naturalisation patterns, occupations and marriage patterns of the Harz immigrants in Australia indicate that, as a group, they differed from other nineteenth century German immigrants.     

New Public Management in Austria: Local Variation on a Global Theme?

This article tracks public sector reform in Austria with a focus on the influence of New Public Management (NPM) both as label and as specific set of reform ideas. We analyse to what degree current reforms have been influenced and shaped by this widely acclaimed international trend. In this empirical study we combine the different data sources of media coverage, reform documents and public sector executive survey to cover different levels of analysis. Although the reforms include NPM-features, we see no evidence so far for an archetype change in the Austrian public sector.