diff --git a/annis-service/src/main/java/annis/administration/CorpusAdministration.java b/annis-service/src/main/java/annis/administration/CorpusAdministration.java
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/annis-service/src/main/java/annis/administration/CorpusAdministration.java
+++ b/annis-service/src/main/java/annis/administration/CorpusAdministration.java
@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ public class CorpusAdministration
     // create tables and other stuff that is handled by the scheme fixer
     if (schemeFixer != null)
     {
+      schemeFixer.setDatabaseSchema(pgSchema);
       schemeFixer.checkAndFix();
     }
   }
postgres schema must be set to the new value in scheme fixer after database was initialized