diff --git a/src/caosdb/common/models.py b/src/caosdb/common/models.py
index e58b57f382ffd4d14d5319aa289ce74cb8df4660..417d0556ed8c0a40d925dd96e2ce4f7240053085 100644
--- a/src/caosdb/common/models.py
+++ b/src/caosdb/common/models.py
@@ -541,7 +541,9 @@ class Entity(object):
                     return p
         else:
             for p in self.properties:
-                if p.name is not None and str(p.name) == str(key):
+                if (p.name is not None
+                        and str(p.name).lower() == str(key).lower()):
+
                     return p
 
         return None
diff --git a/unittests/test_entity.py b/unittests/test_entity.py
index a8f96785f383b8377fa15b5ab064551567726738..3fdc6af43d3a60ed7cfb466298e4b49729203282 100644
--- a/unittests/test_entity.py
+++ b/unittests/test_entity.py
@@ -65,3 +65,6 @@ class TestEntity(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(parent.id, -3456)
         self.assertEqual(p.id, -23345)
         self.assertEqual(rec.id, -23)
+
+    def test_instanciation(self):
+        self.assertRaises(Exception, Entity())
diff --git a/unittests/test_record.py b/unittests/test_record.py
index cd65ede6b79d6ea53643348e10e08f86be36a362..001f91a726ae8c532a35a6d4875f434bedd3bbce 100644
--- a/unittests/test_record.py
+++ b/unittests/test_record.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 #
 # Copyright (C) 2018 Research Group Biomedical Physics,
 # Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization Göttingen
+# Copyright (C) 2019 Henrik tom Wörden
 #
 # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
@@ -23,8 +24,12 @@
 #
 """Tests for the Record class."""
 # pylint: disable=missing-docstring
-from nose.tools import (assert_is_not_none as there, assert_true as tru,
-                        assert_equal as eq)
+import unittest
+
+from nose.tools import assert_equal as eq
+from nose.tools import assert_is_not_none as there
+from nose.tools import assert_true as tru
+
 from caosdb import Entity, Record, configure_connection
 from caosdb.connection.mockup import MockUpServerConnection
 
@@ -48,3 +53,13 @@ def test_is_entity():
 def test_role():
     record = Record()
     eq(record.role, "Record")
+
+
+class TestRecord(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_property_access(self):
+        rec = Record()
+        rec.add_property("Prop")
+        self.assertIsNone(rec.get_property("Pop"))
+        self.assertIsNotNone(rec.get_property("Prop"))
+        self.assertIsNotNone(rec.get_property("prop"))
+        self.assertIsNotNone(rec.get_property("prOp"))