diff --git a/ubo-common/src/main/java/org/mycore/ubo/basket/BasketName2PIDEditor.java b/ubo-common/src/main/java/org/mycore/ubo/basket/BasketName2PIDEditor.java
index 55185c58..2809e26e 100644
--- a/ubo-common/src/main/java/org/mycore/ubo/basket/BasketName2PIDEditor.java
+++ b/ubo-common/src/main/java/org/mycore/ubo/basket/BasketName2PIDEditor.java
@@ -9,10 +9,6 @@
 
 package org.mycore.ubo.basket;
 
-import java.util.HashMap;
-import java.util.List;
-import java.util.Map;
-
 import jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
 import jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
 import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
@@ -29,6 +25,10 @@
 import org.mycore.ubo.AccessControl;
 import org.mycore.ubo.DozBibEntryServlet;
 
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+
 /**
  * Servlet invoked by edit-contributors.xml to
  * change contributor name and pid entries in the basket of bibliography entries
@@ -99,6 +99,12 @@ private void changeContributorInBasket(NameEntry nameEntryFromBasket, NameEntry
         contributor.removeChildren("nameIdentifier", MCRConstants.MODS_NAMESPACE);
 
         for (Element child : nameEntryEdited.getModsName().getChildren()) {
+            // retain all nameIdentifier elements, except of type 'connection'
+            String typeAttr = child.getAttributeValue("type");
+            if ("nameIdentifier".equals(child.getName()) && "connection".equals(typeAttr)) {
+                continue;
+            }
+
             if ("namePart".equals(child.getName()) || "nameIdentifier".equals(child.getName())) {
                 if (!child.getTextTrim().isEmpty()) {
                     contributor.addContent(child.clone());