Heineken [H. Heineken, Nilpotent subGROUPs of , nite soluble GROUPs, Arch. Math. (Basel), 56 no. 5 (1991) 417{423. ] studied the order of the nilpotent subGROUPs of the largest order of a SOLVABLE GROUP. We point out an error, and thus refute the proof of the main result of [H. Heineken, Nilpotent subGROUPs of , nite soluble GROUPs, Arch. Math. (Basel), 56 no. 5 (1991) 417{423].