diff --git a/src/controllers/RunnerOrganizationController.ts b/src/controllers/RunnerOrganizationController.ts
index de19d49..5cf4183 100644
--- a/src/controllers/RunnerOrganizationController.ts
+++ b/src/controllers/RunnerOrganizationController.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { Authorized, Body, Delete, Get, JsonController, OnUndefined, Param, Post, Put, QueryParam } from 'routing-controllers';
+import { Authorized, BadRequestError, Body, Delete, Get, JsonController, OnUndefined, Param, Post, Put, QueryParam } from 'routing-controllers';
 import { OpenAPI, ResponseSchema } from 'routing-controllers-openapi';
 import { getConnectionManager, Repository } from 'typeorm';
 import { RunnerOrganizationHasRunnersError, RunnerOrganizationHasTeamsError, RunnerOrganizationIdsNotMatchingError, RunnerOrganizationNotFoundError } from '../errors/RunnerOrganizationErrors';
@@ -114,6 +114,10 @@ export class RunnerOrganizationController {
 	@OnUndefined(204)
 	@OpenAPI({ description: 'Delete the organsisation whose id you provided. <br> If the organization still has runners and/or teams associated this will fail. <br> To delete the organization with all associated runners and teams set the force QueryParam to true (cascading deletion might take a while). <br> This won\'t delete the associated contact. <br> If no organization with this id exists it will just return 204(no content).' })
 	async remove(@Param("id") id: number, @QueryParam("force") force: boolean) {
+		if (id == 1) {
+			throw new BadRequestError("You can't delete the citizen runner org.");
+		}
+
 		let organization = await this.runnerOrganizationRepository.findOne({ id: id });
 		if (!organization) { return null; }
 		let runnerOrganization = await this.runnerOrganizationRepository.findOne(organization, { relations: ['contact', 'runners', 'teams'] });
diff --git a/src/tests/runnerOrgs/org_delete.spec.ts b/src/tests/runnerOrgs/org_delete.spec.ts
index 92cbfce..293b5a6 100644
--- a/src/tests/runnerOrgs/org_delete.spec.ts
+++ b/src/tests/runnerOrgs/org_delete.spec.ts
@@ -22,6 +22,12 @@ describe('deletion (non-existant)', () => {
         expect(res2.status).toEqual(204);
     });
 });
+describe('deletion of citizen sould fail', () => {
+    it('delete', async () => {
+        const res3 = await axios.delete(base + '/api/organizations/1', axios_config);
+        expect(res3.status).toEqual(400);
+    });
+});
 // ---------------
 describe('adding + deletion (successfull)', () => {
     let added_org_id
diff --git a/test.sqlite-journal b/test.sqlite-journal
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