diff --git a/src/main/java/org/caosdb/server/database/BackendTransaction.java b/src/main/java/org/caosdb/server/database/BackendTransaction.java
index 20ec5b71a7ae6f4dd908dc38145df1c41f035e8e..5bf978343d72272309d4f4ab0f039770419c87b8 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/caosdb/server/database/BackendTransaction.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/caosdb/server/database/BackendTransaction.java
@@ -59,7 +59,6 @@ import org.caosdb.server.database.backend.implementation.MySQL.MySQLRetrieveProp
 import org.caosdb.server.database.backend.implementation.MySQL.MySQLRetrieveQueryTemplateDefinition;
 import org.caosdb.server.database.backend.implementation.MySQL.MySQLRetrieveRole;
 import org.caosdb.server.database.backend.implementation.MySQL.MySQLRetrieveSparseEntity;
-import org.caosdb.server.database.backend.implementation.MySQL.MySQLRetrieveTransactionHistory;
 import org.caosdb.server.database.backend.implementation.MySQL.MySQLRetrieveUser;
 import org.caosdb.server.database.backend.implementation.MySQL.MySQLRetrieveVersionHistory;
 import org.caosdb.server.database.backend.implementation.MySQL.MySQLRuleLoader;
@@ -116,7 +115,6 @@ import org.caosdb.server.database.backend.interfaces.RetrievePropertiesImpl;
 import org.caosdb.server.database.backend.interfaces.RetrieveQueryTemplateDefinitionImpl;
 import org.caosdb.server.database.backend.interfaces.RetrieveRoleImpl;
 import org.caosdb.server.database.backend.interfaces.RetrieveSparseEntityImpl;
-import org.caosdb.server.database.backend.interfaces.RetrieveTransactionHistoryImpl;
 import org.caosdb.server.database.backend.interfaces.RetrieveUserImpl;
 import org.caosdb.server.database.backend.interfaces.RetrieveVersionHistoryImpl;
 import org.caosdb.server.database.backend.interfaces.RuleLoaderImpl;
@@ -177,7 +175,6 @@ public abstract class BackendTransaction implements Undoable {
       setImpl(RetrieveAllImpl.class, MySQLRetrieveAll.class);
       setImpl(RegisterSubDomainImpl.class, MySQLRegisterSubDomain.class);
       setImpl(RetrieveDatatypesImpl.class, MySQLRetrieveDatatypes.class);
-      setImpl(RetrieveTransactionHistoryImpl.class, MySQLRetrieveTransactionHistory.class);
       setImpl(RetrieveUserImpl.class, MySQLRetrieveUser.class);
       setImpl(RetrieveParentsImpl.class, MySQLRetrieveParents.class);
       setImpl(GetFileRecordByPathImpl.class, MySQLGetFileRecordByPath.class);
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/caosdb/server/database/backend/implementation/MySQL/MySQLRetrieveTransactionHistory.java b/src/main/java/org/caosdb/server/database/backend/implementation/MySQL/MySQLRetrieveTransactionHistory.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 3273f49aa85776c4fd323ed4c027f4d1fcd3fbb0..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/src/main/java/org/caosdb/server/database/backend/implementation/MySQL/MySQLRetrieveTransactionHistory.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,75 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * ** header v3.0
- * This file is a part of the CaosDB Project.
- *
- * Copyright (C) 2018 Research Group Biomedical Physics,
- * Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization Göttingen
- *
- * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
- * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
- * License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
- * along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
- *
- * ** end header
- */
-package org.caosdb.server.database.backend.implementation.MySQL;
-
-import static org.caosdb.server.database.DatabaseUtils.bytes2UTF8;
-
-import java.sql.PreparedStatement;
-import java.sql.ResultSet;
-import java.sql.SQLException;
-import java.util.ArrayList;
-import org.caosdb.server.database.access.Access;
-import org.caosdb.server.database.backend.interfaces.RetrieveTransactionHistoryImpl;
-import org.caosdb.server.database.exceptions.TransactionException;
-import org.caosdb.server.database.proto.ProtoTransactionLogMessage;
-
-public class MySQLRetrieveTransactionHistory extends MySQLTransaction
-    implements RetrieveTransactionHistoryImpl {
-
-  public MySQLRetrieveTransactionHistory(final Access access) {
-    super(access);
-  }
-
-  public static final String STMT_RETRIEVE_HISTORY =
-      "SELECT transaction, realm, username, seconds, nanos FROM transaction_log WHERE entity_id=? ";
-
-  @Override
-  public ArrayList<ProtoTransactionLogMessage> execute(final Integer id)
-      throws TransactionException {
-    try {
-      final PreparedStatement stmt = prepareStatement(STMT_RETRIEVE_HISTORY);
-
-      final ArrayList<ProtoTransactionLogMessage> ret = new ArrayList<ProtoTransactionLogMessage>();
-      stmt.setInt(1, id);
-      final ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery();
-      try {
-        while (rs.next()) {
-          final String transaction = bytes2UTF8(rs.getBytes("transaction"));
-          final String realm = bytes2UTF8(rs.getBytes("realm"));
-          final String username = bytes2UTF8(rs.getBytes("username"));
-          final Integer seconds = rs.getInt("seconds");
-          final Integer nanos = rs.getInt("nanos");
-
-          ret.add(new ProtoTransactionLogMessage(transaction, realm, username, seconds, nanos));
-        }
-        return ret;
-      } finally {
-        rs.close();
-      }
-    } catch (final SQLException e) {
-      throw new TransactionException(e);
-    } catch (final ConnectionException e) {
-      throw new TransactionException(e);
-    }
-  }
-}
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/caosdb/server/database/backend/interfaces/RetrieveTransactionHistoryImpl.java b/src/main/java/org/caosdb/server/database/backend/interfaces/RetrieveTransactionHistoryImpl.java
deleted file mode 100644
index b02e4d9347e572941ab31e3a1a371470e1d8ee5c..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/src/main/java/org/caosdb/server/database/backend/interfaces/RetrieveTransactionHistoryImpl.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * ** header v3.0
- * This file is a part of the CaosDB Project.
- *
- * Copyright (C) 2018 Research Group Biomedical Physics,
- * Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization Göttingen
- *
- * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
- * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
- * License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
- * along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
- *
- * ** end header
- */
-package org.caosdb.server.database.backend.interfaces;
-
-import java.util.ArrayList;
-import org.caosdb.server.database.exceptions.TransactionException;
-import org.caosdb.server.database.proto.ProtoTransactionLogMessage;
-
-public interface RetrieveTransactionHistoryImpl extends BackendTransactionImpl {
-
-  public ArrayList<ProtoTransactionLogMessage> execute(Integer id) throws TransactionException;
-}
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/caosdb/server/database/backend/transaction/RetrieveVersionHistory.java b/src/main/java/org/caosdb/server/database/backend/transaction/RetrieveVersionHistory.java
index 3d1cf0a9adc58e5db5721047192e2fb7fb147924..a5079c4e033882c4b1068615551b5132e4ee0cba 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/caosdb/server/database/backend/transaction/RetrieveVersionHistory.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/caosdb/server/database/backend/transaction/RetrieveVersionHistory.java
@@ -1,19 +1,22 @@
 /*
- * ** header v3.0 This file is a part of the CaosDB Project.
+ * ** header v3.0
+ * This file is a part of the CaosDB Project.
  *
  * Copyright (C) 2020 IndiScale GmbH <info@indiscale.com>
  * Copyright (C) 2020 Timm Fitschen <t.fitschen@indiscale.com>
  *
- * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
- * GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3
- * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
+ * License, or (at your option) any later version.
  *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without
- * even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
- * Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
  *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with this program.
- * If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
  *
  * ** end header
  */
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/caosdb/server/database/proto/ProtoTransactionLogMessage.java b/src/main/java/org/caosdb/server/database/proto/ProtoTransactionLogMessage.java
deleted file mode 100644
index dd5cdbebcda7dd2c5c7f9ca93be69972ecef0e2c..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/src/main/java/org/caosdb/server/database/proto/ProtoTransactionLogMessage.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * ** header v3.0
- * This file is a part of the CaosDB Project.
- *
- * Copyright (C) 2018 Research Group Biomedical Physics,
- * Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization Göttingen
- *
- * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
- * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
- * License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
- * along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
- *
- * ** end header
- */
-package org.caosdb.server.database.proto;
-
-import java.io.Serializable;
-
-public class ProtoTransactionLogMessage implements Serializable {
-
-  public ProtoTransactionLogMessage(
-      final String transaction,
-      final String realm,
-      final String username,
-      final long seconds,
-      final int nanos) {
-    this.transaction = transaction;
-    this.realm = realm;
-    this.username = username;
-    this.seconds = seconds;
-    this.nanos = nanos;
-  }
-
-  public ProtoTransactionLogMessage() {}
-
-  private static final long serialVersionUID = -5856887517281480754L;
-  public String transaction = null;
-  public String realm;
-  public String username = null;
-  public Long seconds = null;
-  public Integer nanos = null;
-}
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/caosdb/server/jobs/core/History.java b/src/main/java/org/caosdb/server/jobs/core/History.java
index e9d81ad40adeef1e3fa6d1498dabfe3a58c6fa29..5594b5afdb841436dbdd63f96b8e2c44faef51c6 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/caosdb/server/jobs/core/History.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/caosdb/server/jobs/core/History.java
@@ -33,9 +33,8 @@ import org.caosdb.server.utils.EntityStatus;
 import org.caosdb.server.utils.ServerMessages;
 
 /**
- * Retrieves the complete version history of each entity and appends it to the
- * entity.
- * 
+ * Retrieves the complete version history of each entity and appends it to the entity.
+ *
  * @author Timm Fitschen (t.fitschen@indiscale.com)
  */
 @JobAnnotation(time = JobExecutionTime.POST_TRANSACTION, flag = "H")