I hope the readers can make out this translation better than I
can

Gérard Cohen writes (but not to the Oz Report):

Alternative Options to HDI-Gerling

The DHV third-party liability insurance is 34.5€ for paragliders and 40.2€
for hang gliders, but it requires that you be a member of DHV. For members of a
club this is 43€, non club members pay 69€. Alternatively the "Würzburger"
(insurance company) offers third party liability insurance for 45€, without requiring
any membership.

For tandem pilots the price difference is even bigger. For example, the "Generali"
offers via <buero> and the
"R&V" via <fbraasch> a CSL
for 366,52€ covering up to 2 millions € instead of 631.90€ for hang gliders and
471.90€ for paragliders with the DHV. For all tandem pilots other companies than
the DHV seem to be cheaper. Solo pilots save between 32.5€ and 64.2€ depending
on membership and type of aircraft, as long as they renounce DHV membership.
Tandem pilots even save between 105.38€ and 265.38€!

If you are one of those people who think the DHV fees is well invested money,
please read the following three questions:

Did you know that HDI-Gerling paid 140,000€ back to the DHV last year and
138,000€ the year before?

Did you know that the presidents of DHV decided not to show their salary to
DHV-members (earlier executive committee members talk about minister salaries)?

Did you know that all members, who emphatically demanded that question got
banned from the DHV forum and the DHV?  (http://www.freiflieger-magazin.at/forum/viewtopic.php?t=158).

In addition, I would like to say thank you to all who asked the DHV after I
sent out the last information about the weaklink limitation to 100daN because of
pretended lock-out danger. The DHV immediately canceled its unsustainable
arguments and changed to a LTF ("air-worthy-requirements"), which equally not
withstands, internationally, and which is part of a complaint at the LBA (Luftfahrt
Bundesamt).

This is the best I could do editing a couple of different
translations.