diff --git a/CMakeCommon/CreateDoxygenDocumentationTarget.cmake b/CMakeCommon/CreateDoxygenDocumentationTarget.cmake
index 1e04009..cb68c71 100644
--- a/CMakeCommon/CreateDoxygenDocumentationTarget.cmake
+++ b/CMakeCommon/CreateDoxygenDocumentationTarget.cmake
@@ -40,8 +40,6 @@ function (CreateDoxygenDocumentationTarget)
     if (TARGET doxygen)
       # Do nothing, since the repeated adding causes an error
     else()
-      set(DOXYGEN_TEMPLATE_FILES
-      "doc/reference/header.html")
 
       file(COPY ${DOXYGEN_TEMPLATE_FILES} DESTINATION ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR})
 
diff --git a/doc/reference/Doxyfile.in b/doc/reference/Doxyfile.in
index 0e5d818..5cdb6ff 100644
--- a/doc/reference/Doxyfile.in
+++ b/doc/reference/Doxyfile.in
@@ -205,7 +205,6 @@ IGNORE_PREFIX          = cm
 GENERATE_HTML          = YES
 HTML_OUTPUT            = html
 HTML_FILE_EXTENSION    = .html
-HTML_HEADER            = header.html 
 HTML_FOOTER            = 
 HTML_STYLESHEET        = 
 HTML_EXTRA_STYLESHEET  = @CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR@/doc/reference/DoxygenHTMLStyle.css
diff --git a/doc/reference/header.html b/doc/reference/header.html
deleted file mode 100755
index c212a3f..0000000
--- a/doc/reference/header.html
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,59 +0,0 @@
-<!-- HTML header for doxygen 1.8.6-->
-<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
-<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
-<head>
-<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/xhtml;charset=UTF-8"/>
-<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=9"/>
-<meta name="generator" content="Doxygen $doxygenversion"/>
-<!--BEGIN PROJECT_NAME--><title>$projectname: $title</title><!--END PROJECT_NAME-->
-<!--BEGIN !PROJECT_NAME--><title>$title</title><!--END !PROJECT_NAME-->
-<link href="$relpath^tabs.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
-<script type="text/javascript" src="$relpath^jquery.js"></script>
-<script type="text/javascript" src="$relpath^dynsections.js"></script>
-<script type="text/javascript">
-var is_modules_page = location.pathname.match(".*modules.html");
-$(document).ready(function() { if (toggleLevel && is_modules_page) toggleLevel(2); });
-</script>
-$treeview
-$search
-$mathjax
-<link href="$relpath^$stylesheet" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
-$extrastylesheet
-</head>
-<body>
-<div id="top"><!-- do not remove this div, it is closed by doxygen! -->
-
-<!--BEGIN TITLEAREA-->
-<div id="titlearea">
-<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
- <tbody>
- <tr style="height: 56px;">
-  <!--BEGIN PROJECT_LOGO-->
-  <td id="projectlogo"><img alt="Logo" src="$relpath^$projectlogo"/></td>
-  <!--END PROJECT_LOGO-->
-  <!--BEGIN PROJECT_NAME-->
-  <td style="padding-left: 0.5em;">
-   <div id="projectname">$projectname
-   <!--BEGIN PROJECT_NUMBER-->&#160;<span id="projectnumber">$projectnumber</span><!--END PROJECT_NUMBER-->
-   </div>
-   <!--BEGIN PROJECT_BRIEF--><div id="projectbrief">$projectbrief</div><!--END PROJECT_BRIEF-->
-  </td>
-  <!--END PROJECT_NAME-->
-  <!--BEGIN !PROJECT_NAME-->
-   <!--BEGIN PROJECT_BRIEF-->
-    <td style="padding-left: 0.5em;">
-    <div id="projectbrief">$projectbrief</div>
-    </td>
-   <!--END PROJECT_BRIEF-->
-  <!--END !PROJECT_NAME-->
-  <!--BEGIN DISABLE_INDEX-->
-   <!--BEGIN SEARCHENGINE-->
-   <td>$searchbox</td>
-   <!--END SEARCHENGINE-->
-  <!--END DISABLE_INDEX-->
- </tr>
- </tbody>
-</table>
-</div>
-<!--END TITLEAREA-->
-<!-- end header part -->
