diff --git a/r/GetBirthdate.R b/r/GetBirthdate.R
index 21f61a5f57ec5f5dd475d06c32087c2f19a250a0..42dbb69d5a774e2ae37c9015264e4d64cad83e56 100644
--- a/r/GetBirthdate.R
+++ b/r/GetBirthdate.R
@@ -14,36 +14,42 @@ library(xml2)
 #' will be checked for birthdate
 #'
 #' @param article Article in HTML-format
-#' @return String birthdate as string
+#' @return String birthdate as string|NULL
 getBirthdate <- function(article) {
-  # Check if there is an infobox
-  if(!grepl("vcard", article)) {
-    # Check first paragraph
-    introduction <- getIntroduction(article)
-    if(!introduction == "") {
-      # Get birthdate inside of parentheses
-      birthdate <- str_extract_all(introduction, "\\([^()]+\\)")[[1]]
-      # Remove parentheses
-      birthdate <- substring(birthdate, 2, nchar(birthdate)-1)
-    } else {
-      # Return Null if there is no birthdate
-      return(NULL)
-    }
-  }
   
-  # Try to get birthdate via infobox
-  infoBox <- getInfoBox(article)
+  if(grepl("vcard", article)) {
   
-  # Get the born field
-  birthdate <- infoBox[infoBox$Desc %like% "Born",]$Content
+    # Check if there is an infobox
+    infoBox <- getInfoBox(article)
+    
+    # Get the Born field
+    birthdate <- infoBox[infoBox$Desc %like% "Born",]$Content
+    # Remove everything except the birthdate:
+    # - Remove everything in round brackets
+    birthdate <- gsub("\\s*\\([^\\)]+\\)", "", birthdate)
+    # - Remove everything starting with newline
+    birthdate <- gsub("\\n.*$", "", birthdate)
+    
+    return(birthdate)
   
-  # Remove everything except the birthdate
-  # Remove everything in round brackets
-  birthdate <- gsub("\\s*\\([^\\)]+\\)", "", birthdate)
-  # Remove everything starting with newline
-  birthdate <- gsub("\\n.*$", "", birthdate)
-  return(birthdate)
   
+  } else if(!getIntroduction(article) == "") {
+    
+    # Check first paragraph
+    introduction <- getIntroduction(article)
+    
+    # Get birthdate inside of parentheses
+    birthdate <- str_extract_all(introduction, "\\([^()]+\\)")[[1]]
+    # Remove parentheses
+    birthdate <- substring(birthdate, 2, nchar(birthdate)-1)
+    
+    return(birthdate)
+    
+  } else {
+    
+    # Return Null if there is no birthdate
+    return(NULL)
+  }
 }
 
 ### Converts info box to table