diff --git a/Applications/FileIO/GMSInterface.cpp b/Applications/FileIO/GMSInterface.cpp
index 656da9da4bad958cf486ceeb1970804d977cff8a..5f18925d7dc22d3d937d62805f2990c84d6bbb00 100644
--- a/Applications/FileIO/GMSInterface.cpp
+++ b/Applications/FileIO/GMSInterface.cpp
@@ -132,20 +132,6 @@ int GMSInterface::readBoreholesFromGMS(std::vector<GeoLib::Point*>* boreholes,
     return 1;
 }
 
-/*
-   // all boreholes to GMS which each borehole in a single file
-   void StationIO::writeBoreholesToGMS(const std::vector<GeoLib::Point*>
-   *stations)
-   {
-    //std::vector<std::string> soilID(1);
-    std::vector<std::string> soilID = readSoilIDfromFile("d:/BodeTimeline.txt");
-    for (std::size_t i=0; i<stations->size(); i++)
-        StationIO::writeBoreholeToGMS(static_cast<GeoLib::StationBorehole*>((*stations)[i]),
-   std::string("Borehole-" +
-   static_cast<GeoLib::StationBorehole*>((*stations)[i])->getName() + ".txt"),
-   soilID); StationIO::writeSoilIDTable(soilID, "SoilIDReference.txt");
-   }
- */
 void GMSInterface::writeBoreholesToGMS(
     const std::vector<GeoLib::Point*>* stations, const std::string& filename)
 {
@@ -216,27 +202,6 @@ int GMSInterface::writeSoilIDTable(const std::vector<std::string>& soilID,
     return 1;
 }
 
-std::vector<std::string> GMSInterface::readSoilIDfromFile(
-    const std::string& filename)
-{
-    std::vector<std::string> soilID;
-    std::string line;
-
-    std::ifstream in(filename.c_str());
-
-    if (in.is_open())
-    {
-        while (std::getline(in, line))
-        {
-            BaseLib::trim(line);
-            soilID.push_back(line);
-        }
-    }
-    in.close();
-
-    return soilID;
-}
-
 MeshLib::Mesh* GMSInterface::readGMS3DMMesh(const std::string& filename)
 {
     std::string line;
diff --git a/Applications/FileIO/GMSInterface.h b/Applications/FileIO/GMSInterface.h
index 6b3640bdfe42d5d0df4d4bbfc6bf2daff38bf784..9e0e8eafb4228989c90d4718fa4ddc202cf80ce3 100644
--- a/Applications/FileIO/GMSInterface.h
+++ b/Applications/FileIO/GMSInterface.h
@@ -66,19 +66,6 @@ public:
 
     /// Reads a GMS *.3dm file and converts it to an CFEMesh.
     static MeshLib::Mesh* readGMS3DMMesh(const std::string& filename);
-
-private:
-    /**
-     * \brief Reads SoilIDs for Borehole export from an external file
-     *
-     * The method expects a file with the name of one stratigraphic layer at
-     * each line. These layers are assigned ascending IDs, i.e. the first name
-     * gets index 0, the second line gets index 1, etc. \return An array with
-     * the names of the stratigraphic layers in which the index for each string
-     * equals its ID.
-     */
-    static std::vector<std::string> readSoilIDfromFile(
-        const std::string& filename);
 };
 
 }  // namespace FileIO