8 May 2006
Written by Seb
Germany’s Most Vengeful Father
Probably improbable to act this out the natural way, but hey, isn’t that what the concept of adoption is there for? Thought the German Jürgen Hass, who is aiming to adopt a 1.000 kids in Paraguay and other countries. Already rightful father of 300, he is taking advantage of a grey area in German paternity law. Becoming a legal offspring, each child has the right to gain German citizenship, and thereby can take advantage of the social benefits the country has to offer – which of course is the bottom line of the enterprise altogether. The dole money he gets for one kid easily feeds an eight headed family in his home country of choice Paraguay.
Altruism is just the smallest slice of his motive cake though. He openly admits that he is looking for payback after feeling treated unfair by the German gouvernment. He has been sentenced to a € 100.000 fine and sent to prison for working as a law consultant without the required qualifications. After coming out of prison, he was suicidal and ultimately became incapable of working at the age of 38. Since then, he’s been living off a € 1.000 monthly annuity (which weighs in at circa 1.000 % of the average per capita income in Paraguay).
The German Embassy in Paraguay tried to put an end to this when they got wind of what was going on: They refused to issue new passports to Hass’ offsprings and banned him from the Embassy campus. But Hass sued the embassy at the Berlin Administrative Court, and the way things look by now he’s likely to win.
German officials said his claims are lawful, and there’s nothing they could do about the rip-off – except for changing the law. German paternity law allows men to legally recognise a child when the mother agrees and no other man claims to be the father.
The last chance to get mass daddy out of business is an amendment to paternity law that was pitched in April by German Minister of Justice, Brigitte Zypries. This amendment would make misuse of the law itself illegal while still maintaining the benefits of it.
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2 Comments currently posted.
Seb says:
Rainer says:
I was going to make it (finished it on mid-night) but the bloody connection wasn’t working.
I’ll fix the bug that shows no writer for the post. I presume it’s ok in a form
“Author: title os the great post” ?
First post, btw! :D