diff --git a/PFERD/crawler.py b/PFERD/crawler.py
index 749510c..e3aef8f 100644
--- a/PFERD/crawler.py
+++ b/PFERD/crawler.py
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
+import asyncio
 from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
 from datetime import datetime
 from pathlib import Path, PurePath
-from typing import Any, Awaitable, Callable, Dict, Optional, Tuple, TypeVar
+from typing import Any, Awaitable, Callable, Dict, List, Optional, Sequence, Tuple, TypeVar
 
 from rich.markup import escape
 
@@ -228,6 +229,25 @@ class Crawler(ABC):
             section.on_conflict(),
         )
 
+    @staticmethod
+    async def gather(awaitables: Sequence[Awaitable[Any]]) -> List[Any]:
+        """
+        Similar to asyncio.gather. However, in the case of an exception, all
+        still running tasks are cancelled and the exception is rethrown.
+
+        This should always be preferred over asyncio.gather in crawler code so
+        that an exception like CrawlError may actually stop the crawler.
+        """
+
+        tasks = [asyncio.ensure_future(aw) for aw in awaitables]
+        result = asyncio.gather(*tasks)
+        try:
+            return await result
+        except:  # noqa: E722
+            for task in tasks:
+                task.cancel()
+            raise
+
     async def crawl(self, path: PurePath) -> Optional[CrawlToken]:
         log.explain_topic(f"Decision: Crawl {fmt_path(path)}")
 
diff --git a/PFERD/crawlers/ilias/kit_ilias_web_crawler.py b/PFERD/crawlers/ilias/kit_ilias_web_crawler.py
index 9094a7b..597ea17 100644
--- a/PFERD/crawlers/ilias/kit_ilias_web_crawler.py
+++ b/PFERD/crawlers/ilias/kit_ilias_web_crawler.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import asyncio
 import re
 from pathlib import PurePath
 from typing import Any, Awaitable, Callable, Dict, Optional, Set, TypeVar, Union
@@ -215,7 +214,7 @@ class KitIliasWebCrawler(HttpCrawler):
             # this method without having spawned a single task. Due to this we do
             # not need to cancel anything or worry about this gather call or the forks
             # further up.
-            await asyncio.gather(*tasks)
+            await self.gather(tasks)
 
         await impl()
 
@@ -240,7 +239,7 @@ class KitIliasWebCrawler(HttpCrawler):
             # this method without having spawned a single task. Due to this we do
             # not need to cancel anything or worry about this gather call or the forks
             # further up.
-            await asyncio.gather(*tasks)
+            await self.gather(tasks)
 
         await impl()
 
diff --git a/PFERD/crawlers/local.py b/PFERD/crawlers/local.py
index 176f36d..35e5829 100644
--- a/PFERD/crawlers/local.py
+++ b/PFERD/crawlers/local.py
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ class LocalCrawler(Crawler):
                 pure_child = pure / child.name
                 tasks.append(self._crawl_path(child, pure_child))
 
-        await asyncio.gather(*tasks)
+        await self.gather(tasks)
 
     async def _crawl_file(self, path: Path, pure: PurePath) -> None:
         stat = path.stat()