diff --git a/bescheid-manager/src/main/java/de/ozgcloud/bescheid/smartdocuments/SmartDocumentsBescheidRemoteService.java b/bescheid-manager/src/main/java/de/ozgcloud/bescheid/smartdocuments/SmartDocumentsBescheidRemoteService.java
index 6dd87bd4b8bb2423fe933e8d4e098e056890f8fc..07c961a2ea1358c9f6ffb50daf83c30b4433ea8f 100644
--- a/bescheid-manager/src/main/java/de/ozgcloud/bescheid/smartdocuments/SmartDocumentsBescheidRemoteService.java
+++ b/bescheid-manager/src/main/java/de/ozgcloud/bescheid/smartdocuments/SmartDocumentsBescheidRemoteService.java
@@ -120,23 +120,29 @@ class SmartDocumentsBescheidRemoteService implements BescheidRemoteService {
 	}
 
 	Optional<String> extractTextFormXmlFile(File xmlFile) {
-		var xPath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath();
 		try {
-			var document = DocumentBuilderFactory.newDefaultInstance().newDocumentBuilder().parse(xmlFile);
-			var expr = xPath.compile("/root/SmartDocument/Fields/NachrichtenText/text()");
-			var text = (Text) expr.evaluate(document, XPathConstants.NODE);
-
-			return Optional.ofNullable(text.getTextContent());
+			return doExtractText(xmlFile);
 		} catch (XPathExpressionException | SAXException | IOException | ParserConfigurationException e) {
-			LOG.error("XML-Parsing error on extracting Nachricht-Text: {}", e.getMessage(), e);
+			LOG.warn("XML-Parsing error on extracting Nachricht-Text: {}", e.getMessage(), e);
 		} catch (ClassCastException e) {
-			LOG.error("Error on extraction Nachricht-Text. XPath return unexpected Type.", e);
+			LOG.warn("Error on extraction Nachricht-Text. XPath return unexpected Type.", e);
 		} catch (RuntimeException e) {
-			LOG.error("Unexpected Error on extracting NachrichtText: {}", e.getMessage(), e);
+			LOG.warn("Unexpected Error on extracting NachrichtText: {}", e.getMessage(), e);
 		}
 		return Optional.empty();
 	}
 
+	Optional<String> doExtractText(File xmlFile)
+			throws SAXException, IOException, ParserConfigurationException, XPathExpressionException {
+		var xPath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath();
+
+		var document = DocumentBuilderFactory.newDefaultInstance().newDocumentBuilder().parse(xmlFile);
+		var expr = xPath.compile("/root/SmartDocument/Fields/NachrichtenText/text()");
+
+		return Optional.ofNullable((Text) expr.evaluate(document, XPathConstants.NODE))
+				.map(Text::getTextContent);
+	}
+
 	Optional<File> getXMLFile(SmartDocumentsResponse response) {
 		return getSmartDocumentsFile(response, FILE_TYPE_XML)
 				.map(SmartDocumentFile::getDocument)
diff --git a/bescheid-manager/src/test/java/de/ozgcloud/bescheid/smartdocuments/SmartDocumentsBescheidRemoteServiceTest.java b/bescheid-manager/src/test/java/de/ozgcloud/bescheid/smartdocuments/SmartDocumentsBescheidRemoteServiceTest.java
index 9696b3cba965a5c2a3c9cdfb50e87dc330b7e37a..41ad8368a3b350af6790e6cc20c0d3e327d792ae 100644
--- a/bescheid-manager/src/test/java/de/ozgcloud/bescheid/smartdocuments/SmartDocumentsBescheidRemoteServiceTest.java
+++ b/bescheid-manager/src/test/java/de/ozgcloud/bescheid/smartdocuments/SmartDocumentsBescheidRemoteServiceTest.java
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import de.ozgcloud.bescheid.smartdocuments.SmartDocumentsRequest.CustomerData.Us
 import de.ozgcloud.bescheid.vorgang.VorgangTestFactory;
 import de.ozgcloud.common.binaryfile.TempFileUtils;
 import de.ozgcloud.common.test.TestUtils;
+import lombok.SneakyThrows;
 
 class SmartDocumentsBescheidRemoteServiceTest {
 
@@ -84,6 +85,16 @@ class SmartDocumentsBescheidRemoteServiceTest {
 				assertThat(text).isEmpty();
 			}
 
+			@Test
+			@SneakyThrows
+			void shouldExpectMissingTextNode() {
+				File xmlFileWithoutText = TempFileUtils.writeTmpFile(TestUtils.loadFile("SD_answer_without_text.xml"));
+
+				var text = service.doExtractText(xmlFileWithoutText);
+
+				assertThat(text).isEmpty();
+			}
+
 		}
 	}
 }
diff --git a/bescheid-manager/src/test/resources/SD_answer_without_text.xml b/bescheid-manager/src/test/resources/SD_answer_without_text.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..62f2d02636091f1b13e7ce9c05208096415be20f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bescheid-manager/src/test/resources/SD_answer_without_text.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<root>
+   <SmartDocument Version="2.0">
+      <Fields>
+     
+      </Fields>
+   </SmartDocument>
+</root>
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