diff --git a/frontend/webEditor/src/commandPalette/commandStack.ts b/frontend/webEditor/src/commandPalette/commandStack.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..fd5de380
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/webEditor/src/commandPalette/commandStack.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+import {
+    BringToFrontCommand,
+    CenterCommand,
+    CommandStack,
+    FitToScreenCommand,
+    HiddenCommand,
+    ICommand,
+    SelectCommand,
+    SetViewportCommand,
+} from "sprotty";
+
+/**
+ * Custom command stack implementations that only pushes
+ * commands that modify the diagram to the undo stack.
+ * Commands like selections, viewport moves etc. are filtered out
+ * and not pushed to the undo stack. Because of this they will not
+ * be undone when the user presses Ctrl+Z.
+ *
+ * This is done because the commands like selections clutter up
+ * the stack and the user has to undo many commands without
+ * really knowing what they are undoing when the selections/viewport moves
+ * are small.
+ */
+export class DiagramModificationCommandStack extends CommandStack {
+    protected override isPushToUndoStack(command: ICommand): boolean {
+        return !(
+            command instanceof HiddenCommand ||
+            command instanceof SelectCommand ||
+            command instanceof SetViewportCommand ||
+            command instanceof BringToFrontCommand ||
+            command instanceof FitToScreenCommand ||
+            command instanceof CenterCommand
+        );
+    }
+}
diff --git a/frontend/webEditor/src/commandPalette/di.config.ts b/frontend/webEditor/src/commandPalette/di.config.ts
index e8f536bd..a4ecf0b7 100644
--- a/frontend/webEditor/src/commandPalette/di.config.ts
+++ b/frontend/webEditor/src/commandPalette/di.config.ts
@@ -2,10 +2,12 @@ import { ContainerModule } from "inversify";
 import { CommandPalette, TYPES } from "sprotty";
 import { WebEditorCommandPaletteActionProvider } from "./commandPaletteProvider";
 import { WebEditorCommandPalette } from "./commandPalette";
+import { DiagramModificationCommandStack } from "./commandStack";
 
 export const commandPaletteModule = new ContainerModule((bind, _, __, rebind) => {
     rebind(CommandPalette).to(WebEditorCommandPalette).inSingletonScope();
 
     bind(WebEditorCommandPaletteActionProvider).toSelf().inSingletonScope();
     bind(TYPES.ICommandPaletteActionProvider).toService(WebEditorCommandPaletteActionProvider);
+    rebind(TYPES.ICommandStack).to(DiagramModificationCommandStack).inSingletonScope();
 });
diff --git a/frontend/webEditor/src/deleteKey/deleteKeyListener.ts b/frontend/webEditor/src/deleteKey/deleteKeyListener.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..015fe387
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/webEditor/src/deleteKey/deleteKeyListener.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+import {
+    CommitModelAction,
+    KeyListener,
+    SModelElementImpl,
+    isDeletable,
+    isSelectable,
+    SConnectableElementImpl,
+    SChildElementImpl,
+} from "sprotty";
+import { Action, DeleteElementAction } from "sprotty-protocol";
+import { matchesKeystroke } from "sprotty/lib/utils/keyboard";
+
+/**
+ * Custom sprotty key listener that deletes all selected elements when the user presses the delete key.
+ */
+export class DeleteKeyListener extends KeyListener {
+    override keyDown(element: SModelElementImpl, event: KeyboardEvent): Action[] {
+        if (matchesKeystroke(event, "Delete")) {
+            return this.deleteSelectedElements(element);
+        }
+        return [];
+    }
+
+    private deleteSelectedElements(element: SModelElementImpl): Action[] {
+        const index = element.root.index;
+        const selectedElements = Array.from(
+            index
+                .all()
+                .filter((e) => isDeletable(e) && isSelectable(e) && e.selected)
+                .filter((e) => e.id !== e.root.id), // Deleting the model root would be a bad idea
+        );
+
+        const deleteElementIds = selectedElements.flatMap((e) => {
+            const ids = [e.id];
+
+            if (e instanceof SConnectableElementImpl) {
+                // This element can be connected to other elements, so we need to delete all edges connected to it as well.
+                // Otherwise the edges would be left dangling in the graph.
+                ids.push(...this.getEdgeIdsOfElement(e));
+            }
+            if (e instanceof SChildElementImpl) {
+                // Add all children and their edges to the list of elements to delete
+                // This is needed when the edges are not connected to the element itself but to a port of the element.
+                e.children.forEach((child) => {
+                    ids.push(child.id);
+                    if (child instanceof SConnectableElementImpl) {
+                        ids.push(...this.getEdgeIdsOfElement(child));
+                    }
+                });
+            }
+
+            return ids;
+        });
+
+        if (deleteElementIds.length > 0) {
+            const uniqueIds = [...new Set(deleteElementIds)];
+
+            return [DeleteElementAction.create(uniqueIds), CommitModelAction.create()];
+        } else {
+            return [];
+        }
+    }
+
+    private getEdgeIdsOfElement(element: SConnectableElementImpl): string[] {
+        return [...element.incomingEdges.map((e) => e.id), ...element.outgoingEdges.map((e) => e.id)];
+    }
+}
diff --git a/frontend/webEditor/src/deleteKey/di.config.ts b/frontend/webEditor/src/deleteKey/di.config.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a86f47da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/webEditor/src/deleteKey/di.config.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+import { ContainerModule } from "inversify";
+import { DeleteKeyListener } from "./deleteKeyListener";
+import { TYPES } from "sprotty";
+
+export const deleteKeyModule = new ContainerModule((bind) => {
+    bind(DeleteKeyListener).toSelf().inSingletonScope();
+    bind(TYPES.KeyListener).toService(DeleteKeyListener);
+});
diff --git a/frontend/webEditor/src/index.ts b/frontend/webEditor/src/index.ts
index ce0f74b7..68f56b0c 100644
--- a/frontend/webEditor/src/index.ts
+++ b/frontend/webEditor/src/index.ts
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import { constraintModule } from "./constraint/di.config";
 import { assignmentModule } from "./assignment/di.config";
 import { editorModeOverwritesModule } from "./editModeOverwrites/di.config";
 import { loadingIndicatorModule } from "./loadingIndicator/di.config";
+import { deleteKeyModule } from "./deleteKey/di.config";
 
 const container = new Container();
 
@@ -53,6 +54,7 @@ container.load(
     assignmentModule,
     editorModeOverwritesModule,
     loadingIndicatorModule,
+    deleteKeyModule,
 );
 
 const startUpAgents = container.getAll<IStartUpAgent>(StartUpAgent);