diff --git a/AMDiS/src/parallel/MeshDistributor.cc b/AMDiS/src/parallel/MeshDistributor.cc
index c54c1ff938495a7c7558158257b129cb389516dc..ee172ccbd996ef3587ba921731e656802c5f8cde 100644
--- a/AMDiS/src/parallel/MeshDistributor.cc
+++ b/AMDiS/src/parallel/MeshDistributor.cc
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ namespace AMDiS {
     setRankDofs();
 
     // And delete some data, we there is no mesh adaptivty.
-    if (meshAdaptivity)
+    if (!meshAdaptivity)
       elObjDb.clear();
 
     initialized = true;