diff --git a/Services/MathJax/classes/class.ilMathJax.php b/Services/MathJax/classes/class.ilMathJax.php
index d2d41ad6d3cf..321c68ee7bf0 100644
--- a/Services/MathJax/classes/class.ilMathJax.php
+++ b/Services/MathJax/classes/class.ilMathJax.php
@@ -310,7 +310,6 @@ public function insertLatexImages(string $a_text, ?string $a_start = '[tex]', ?s
                 $tex = str_replace('<br />', '', $tex);
 
                 // tex specific replacements
-                $tex = str_replace('\\\\', '\\cr', $tex);
                 $tex = preg_replace("/\\\\([RZN])([^a-zA-Z])/", "\\mathbb{" . "$1" . "}" . "$2", $tex);
 
                 // check, if tags go across div borders