diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index c13cf0f..dee7d5e 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 - Added role names to user-group list
 - Added not-timeExceeded to the totalResult constraints.
 - Replace EDIT_VC occurrences with CREATE_VC, and removed it.
+- Fixed administrative user group retrieval to return groups with empty members.
 
 
 # version 0.74.1-SNAPSHOT
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/dao/UserGroupDao.java b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/dao/UserGroupDao.java
index 6c7914a..2545122 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/dao/UserGroupDao.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/dao/UserGroupDao.java
@@ -210,6 +210,14 @@
         }
     }
 
+    /** If fetchMembers=true, this method doesn't return groups with empty 
+     *  members.
+     * 
+     * @param groupName
+     * @param fetchMembers
+     * @return
+     * @throws KustvaktException
+     */
     public UserGroup retrieveGroupByName (String groupName,
             boolean fetchMembers) throws KustvaktException {
         ParameterChecker.checkStringValue(groupName, "groupName");
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/service/UserGroupService.java b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/service/UserGroupService.java
index e059583..6362d25 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/service/UserGroupService.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/service/UserGroupService.java
@@ -367,9 +367,12 @@
 
     public UserGroupDto searchByName (String groupName)
             throws KustvaktException {
-        UserGroup userGroup = userGroupDao.retrieveGroupByName(groupName, true);
+        UserGroup userGroup = userGroupDao.retrieveGroupByName(groupName, false);
+        List<UserGroupMember> members = groupMemberDao
+                .retrieveMemberByGroupId(userGroup.getId());
+
         UserGroupDto groupDto = converter.createUserGroupDto(userGroup,
-                userGroup.getMembers());
+                members);
         return groupDto;
     }
 
diff --git a/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/web/controller/usergroup/UserGroupControllerAdminTest.java b/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/web/controller/usergroup/UserGroupControllerAdminTest.java
index 13fa68a..6ea1d0a 100644
--- a/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/web/controller/usergroup/UserGroupControllerAdminTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/web/controller/usergroup/UserGroupControllerAdminTest.java
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 import de.ids_mannheim.korap.exceptions.StatusCodes;
 import de.ids_mannheim.korap.service.UserGroupService;
 import de.ids_mannheim.korap.utils.JsonUtils;
+import de.ids_mannheim.korap.web.controller.vc.VirtualCorpusTestBase;
 import jakarta.ws.rs.client.Entity;
 import jakarta.ws.rs.core.Form;
 import jakarta.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
@@ -23,7 +24,7 @@
 /**
  * @author margaretha
  */
-public class UserGroupControllerAdminTest extends UserGroupTestBase {
+public class UserGroupControllerAdminTest extends VirtualCorpusTestBase {
 
     private String testUser = "group-admin";
 
@@ -179,6 +180,23 @@
     }
 
     @Test
+    public void testRetrieveHiddenGroupEmptyMember() throws KustvaktException {
+        createDoryGroup();
+        createPublishedVC("dory", "dory-published");
+        
+        JsonNode node = listHiddenGroup();
+        assertEquals(2, node.size());
+        
+        String name  = node.at("/1/name").asText();
+        JsonNode groupNode = retrieveGroup(name);
+        
+        assertEquals(name, groupNode.at("/name").asText());
+        
+        deleteVC("dory-published", "dory", "dory");
+        deleteGroupByName(doryGroupName, "dory");
+    }
+    
+    @Test
     public void testUserGroupAdmin ()
             throws KustvaktException {
         String groupName = "admin-test-group";