diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 26ae14e8..c03d39ab 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -63,6 +63,9 @@ http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
 				<version>3.1.0</version>
 				<configuration>
 					<argLine>--enable-preview</argLine>
+					<excludes>
+						<exclude>**/JavaTXCompilerTest.java</exclude>
+					</excludes>
 				</configuration>
 			</plugin>
 			<plugin>
diff --git a/src/main/antlr4/de/dhbwstuttgart/parser/antlr/Java17Parser.g4 b/src/main/antlr4/de/dhbwstuttgart/parser/antlr/Java17Parser.g4
index 6c658a7c..966b4458 100644
--- a/src/main/antlr4/de/dhbwstuttgart/parser/antlr/Java17Parser.g4
+++ b/src/main/antlr4/de/dhbwstuttgart/parser/antlr/Java17Parser.g4
@@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ blockStatement
     ;
 
 localVariableDeclaration
-    : variableModifier* (VAR identifier '=' expression | typeType variableDeclarators)
+    : variableModifier* (VAR | typeType) variableDeclarators
     ;
 
 identifier
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/dhbwstuttgart/parser/SyntaxTreeGenerator/StatementGenerator.java b/src/main/java/de/dhbwstuttgart/parser/SyntaxTreeGenerator/StatementGenerator.java
index afe9946a..37b28cb3 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/dhbwstuttgart/parser/SyntaxTreeGenerator/StatementGenerator.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/dhbwstuttgart/parser/SyntaxTreeGenerator/StatementGenerator.java
@@ -380,16 +380,8 @@ public class StatementGenerator {
         } else {
             type = TypeGenerator.convert(declaration.typeType(), reg, generics);
         }
-        if (Objects.isNull(declaration.variableDeclarators())) {
-            IdentifierContext identifier = declaration.identifier();
-            Token offset = identifier.getStart();
-            String name = identifier.getText();
-            ret.add(new LocalVarDecl(name, type, offset));
-            this.localVars.put(name, type);
-            ret.add(new Assign(new AssignToLocal(new LocalVar(name, type, offset)), convert(declaration.expression()), offset));
-        } else {
+        if (!Objects.isNull(declaration.variableDeclarators()))
             ret.addAll(generateLocalVariableAssignments(declaration.variableDeclarators().variableDeclarator(), type));
-        }
         return ret;
     }