diff --git a/cmk/gui/userdb/_connections.py b/cmk/gui/userdb/_connections.py
index 9b455ca811f..8cf435b9c38 100644
--- a/cmk/gui/userdb/_connections.py
+++ b/cmk/gui/userdb/_connections.py
@@ -295,18 +295,6 @@ def get_active_saml_connections() -> dict[str, SAMLUserConnectionConfig]:
     }
 
 
-# The saved configuration for user connections is a bit inconsistent, let's fix
-# this here once and for all.
-def fix_user_connections() -> None:
-    for cfg in active_config.user_connections:
-        # Although our current configuration always seems to have a 'disabled'
-        # entry, this might not have always been the case.
-        cfg.setdefault("disabled", False)
-        # Only migrated configurations have a 'type' entry, all others are
-        # implictly LDAP connections.
-        cfg.setdefault("type", "ldap")
-
-
 def locked_attributes(connection_id: str | None) -> Sequence[str]:
     """Returns a list of connection specific locked attributes"""
     return _get_attributes(connection_id, lambda c: c.locked_attributes())
diff --git a/cmk/gui/userdb/registration.py b/cmk/gui/userdb/registration.py
index 453e890314c..38a1da67fd7 100644
--- a/cmk/gui/userdb/registration.py
+++ b/cmk/gui/userdb/registration.py
@@ -6,14 +6,12 @@
 from datetime import timedelta
 
 from cmk.gui.background_job import BackgroundJobRegistry
-from cmk.gui.config import register_post_config_load_hook
 from cmk.gui.cron import CronJob, CronJobRegistry
 from cmk.gui.pages import PageRegistry
 from cmk.gui.watolib.groups import ContactGroupUsageFinderRegistry
 from cmk.gui.watolib.timeperiods import TimeperiodUsageFinderRegistry
 
 from . import ldap_connector, user_attributes
-from ._connections import fix_user_connections
 from ._connector import UserConnectorRegistry
 from ._find_usage import find_timeperiod_usage_in_users, find_usages_of_contact_group_in_users
 from ._user_attribute import UserAttributeRegistry
@@ -35,7 +33,6 @@ def register(
 ) -> None:
     user_attributes.register(user_attribute_registry)
 
-    register_post_config_load_hook(fix_user_connections)
     cron_job_registry.register(
         CronJob(
             name="execute_userdb_job",