diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 7bd0a67878e448d9cb71df110e510b7501572b37..1c31abd911cf01af03d8a9b342bdc6abf2c5a78f 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 [submodule "ThirdParty/VtkFbxConverter"]
 	path = ThirdParty/VtkFbxConverter
 	url = git://github.com/ufz-vislab/VtkFbxConverter.git
-[submodule "ThirdParty/VtkOsgConverter"]
-	path = ThirdParty/VtkOsgConverter
-	url = git://github.com/ufz-vislab/VtkOsgConverter.git
 [submodule "ThirdParty/tetgen"]
 	path = ThirdParty/tetgen
 	url = https://github.com/ufz/tetgen.git
diff --git a/ThirdParty/VtkOsgConverter b/ThirdParty/VtkOsgConverter
deleted file mode 160000
index 0d9f25a7df625228d927bda1487171d1077fece3..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/ThirdParty/VtkOsgConverter
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 0d9f25a7df625228d927bda1487171d1077fece3