diff --git a/include/villas/nodes/shmem.h b/include/villas/nodes/shmem.h
index b307b4ae4..5648b706f 100644
--- a/include/villas/nodes/shmem.h
+++ b/include/villas/nodes/shmem.h
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
 #include "memory.h"
 #include "pool.h"
 #include "queue.h"
-#include "shmem.h"
 
 #define DEFAULT_SHMEM_QUEUESIZE 512