diff --git a/src/main/java/de/thm/arsnova/dao/CouchDBDao.java b/src/main/java/de/thm/arsnova/dao/CouchDBDao.java
index e2a454bc523a48e9c5dc1424d05d8bae235ffad0..f18caccd02663f19376fc8036d3f6089f14f5a0c 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/thm/arsnova/dao/CouchDBDao.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/thm/arsnova/dao/CouchDBDao.java
@@ -2015,7 +2015,7 @@ public class CouchDBDao implements IDatabaseDao, ApplicationEventPublisherAware
 
 		ViewResults results = this.getDatabase().view(view);
 
-		if (results == null || results.getResults() == null) {
+		if (results == null || results.getResults() == null || results.getJSONArray("rows").optJSONObject(0) == null) {
 			return null;
 		}