diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0f8b0d9a69fb32e4997e9fa6ee8beec045929177..c463cda271d1d076245e06fce772754bc092179a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -17,9 +17,6 @@ Sie finden in diesem Repository folgende Dateien:
   einzelne Abschnitte in ihre eigenen Dateien auszulagern.
 - `abstract.tex`:
   Enthält die maximal einseitige Zusammenfassung Ihrer Arbeit.
-- `acknowledgements.tex`:
-  Falls Sie Danksagungen in Ihrer Arbeit aussprechen wollen,
-  so schreiben Sie sie in diese Datei.
 - `appendix.tex`:
   Ähnlich zur `contents.tex`;
   enthält sämtlichen eventuellen Anhang zu Ihrer Arbeit.
diff --git a/acknowledgements.tex b/acknowledgements.tex
deleted file mode 100644
index db47d378a1b2a49df44295048276ba5131147012..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/acknowledgements.tex
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-Im Falle, dass Sie Ihrer Arbeit eine Danksagung für Ihre Unterstützer
-(Familie, Freunde, Betreuer)
-hinzufügen möchten, können Sie diese hier platzieren.
-
-Zur Anzeige muss \texttt{\textbackslash showacknowledgements}
-in der Präambel Ihrer \texttt{thesis.tex} gesetzt werden.
diff --git a/hhuthesis.cls b/hhuthesis.cls
index 63656af06424a9dc8873d5d09eead18a532675ed..73b75ce2128ce87f096e56fddc26b4f8a6e5e0af 100644
--- a/hhuthesis.cls
+++ b/hhuthesis.cls
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 \NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
-\ProvidesClass{hhuthesis}[2019/09/17 HHU Thesis LaTeX document class v1.5.0]
+\ProvidesClass{hhuthesis}[2019/09/17 HHU Thesis LaTeX document class v1.6.0]
 
 \DeclareOption*{\PassOptionsToClass{\CurrentOption}{article}} % Options fallback.
 \ProcessOptions\relax
@@ -86,13 +86,6 @@
 
 
 
-%%% Acknowledgement settings
-
-\newif\ifacknowledgements
-\acknowledgementsfalse
-\newcommand{\showacknowledgements}{\acknowledgementstrue}
-
-
 %%% Formatting and Typesetting
 
 %% Corporate Design says to use Arial, but TeXLive only provides helvet
@@ -387,7 +380,7 @@
         \bfseries \large \acknowledgementsname
         \@endparpenalty\@M
       \end{center}}%
-     {\par\endtitlepage}
+     {\par\endtitlepage\cleardoublepage}
 \else
   \newenvironment{acknowledgements}{%
       \if@twocolumn
@@ -399,7 +392,7 @@
         \end{center}%
         \quotation
       \fi}
-      {\if@twocolumn\else\endquotation\fi}
+      {\if@twocolumn\else\endquotation\fi\cleardoublepage}
 \fi
 
 
@@ -416,11 +409,4 @@
     \input{abstract.tex}
   \end{abstract}
   \cleardoublepage
-
-  \ifacknowledgements % Only show if \showacknowledgements was set above
-    \begin{acknowledgements}
-      \input{acknowledgements.tex}
-    \end{acknowledgements}
-  \fi
-  \cleardoublepage
 }
diff --git a/thesis.tex b/thesis.tex
index d254467b9fd1ea622e496406adfb8260aa68ae32..ddddf88b33ab19e0a99f81b54d0d75327c8d0652 100644
--- a/thesis.tex
+++ b/thesis.tex
@@ -43,12 +43,6 @@
 % Im Farbdruck ist jede farbige Seite idR teurer.
 % \blackwhiteprint  % Kommentarzeichen entfernen für Schwarzweißdruck
 
-%% Danksagungen:
-% Falls Sie Danksagungen in Ihrer Arbeit aussprechen möchten,
-% rufen Sie das Kommando \showacknowledgements auf.
-% Andernfalls kommentieren Sie die Zeile aus.
-\showacknowledgements
-
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 %% (Ende) Einstellungen zur Personalisierung                                  %%
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
@@ -108,8 +102,24 @@
 \frontmatter
 \makefrontmatter
 
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%% Danksagungen                                                               %%
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\begin{acknowledgements}
+  Im Falle, dass Sie Ihrer Arbeit eine Danksagung für Ihre Unterstützer
+  (Familie, Freunde, Betreuer)
+  hinzufügen möchten, können Sie diese hier platzieren.
+
+  Dieser Part ist optional und kann im Quelltext auskommentiert werden.
+\end{acknowledgements}
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%% (Ende) Danksagungen                                                        %%
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+
 \tableofcontents
 
+
 \mainmatter
 
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%