Squashed commit of the following:

commit 014281237654d4d13b150d6036c7688460cab8bc
Author: Holger Brand <Holger.Brand@BrandNewTechnologies.de>
Date:   Tue Aug 19 19:39:33 2014 +0200

    Add missing attribute accessor.
Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/HB-GSI/CSPP_Core