diff --git a/gdk-core/pom.xml b/gdk-core/pom.xml
index fb6172a..88ee445 100644
--- a/gdk-core/pom.xml
+++ b/gdk-core/pom.xml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>com.github.libgraviton</groupId>
         <artifactId>gdk</artifactId>
-        <version>0.3.2</version>
+        <version>0.3.3</version>
     </parent>
     <artifactId>gdk-core</artifactId>
     <name>gdk-core</name>
diff --git a/gdk-core/src/main/java/com/github/libgraviton/gdk/util/PropertiesLoader.java b/gdk-core/src/main/java/com/github/libgraviton/gdk/util/PropertiesLoader.java
index 4d04cce..fa0db48 100644
--- a/gdk-core/src/main/java/com/github/libgraviton/gdk/util/PropertiesLoader.java
+++ b/gdk-core/src/main/java/com/github/libgraviton/gdk/util/PropertiesLoader.java
@@ -13,6 +13,21 @@ public class PropertiesLoader {
 
     private static final String OVERWRITE_PROPERTIES_PATH = "app.properties";
 
+    /**
+     * Loads the Properties in the following order (if a property entry ia already loaded, it will be overridden with the new value).
+     * 1.) Default Properties
+     *     Minimal needed properties for the gdk
+     *
+     * 2.) Overwrite Properties
+     *     Usually projects that make use of the gdk library will define these properties.
+     *
+     * 3.) System Properties
+     *     Projects that use the gdk library could be deployed to several environments that require different property values.
+     *     The easiest way at this point is to just redefine those properties as system properties.
+     *
+     * @return loaded Properties
+     * @throws IOException whenever the properties from a given path could not be loaded
+     */
     public static Properties load() throws IOException {
         Properties properties = new Properties();
 
@@ -26,6 +41,8 @@ public static Properties load() throws IOException {
             }
         }
 
+        properties.putAll(System.getProperties());
+
         return properties;
     }
 
diff --git a/gdk-maven-plugin/pom.xml b/gdk-maven-plugin/pom.xml
index 9a0aa03..3a02a36 100644
--- a/gdk-maven-plugin/pom.xml
+++ b/gdk-maven-plugin/pom.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>com.github.libgraviton</groupId>
         <artifactId>gdk</artifactId>
-        <version>0.3.2</version>
+        <version>0.3.3</version>
     </parent>
     <artifactId>gdk-maven-plugin</artifactId>
     <packaging>maven-plugin</packaging>
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.github.libgraviton</groupId>
             <artifactId>gdk-core</artifactId>
-            <version>0.3.2</version>
+            <version>0.3.3</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.jsonschema2pojo</groupId>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 9a0da64..33f5057 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <groupId>com.github.libgraviton</groupId>
     <artifactId>gdk</artifactId>
-    <version>0.3.2</version>
+    <version>0.3.3</version>
     <packaging>pom</packaging>
     <name>gdk</name>
     <description>Graviton Development Kit</description>