Question juridique clé
Whether the foreign default judgment could be recognized and enforced despite objections to service by public notice
Solution extraite
The service requirements under German procedural law were met through sufficiently intensive inquiries, so Article 27 No. 2 aLugÜ did not bar recognition.
Motifs extraits
The Federal Court found no arbitrariness in the cantonal court's assessment that the creditor had made adequate inquiries into the debtor's whereabouts; no specific additional inquiry, including one to the Bundesverwaltungsamt, was mandatory.