14 it may also be seen that the cladding 17 has been provided during mounting with longitudinal slots 17 a illustrated in fig3 is the basic housing 11 with a latching element 20 b which serves for latching into the outer housing which surrounds it later also illustrated is the inserted ferrule 2 with the optical fiber piece 2 a and the ground end face 3 it follows from fig4 how the individual parts of the optical fiber connector are combined for mounting before the splicing operation and so the method according to the invention can also be derived from this illustration thus the cladding 17 of the optical fiber cable 14 is provided on a length of approximately 20 mm with longitudinal slots 17 a such that the stress members 8 of the optical fiber cable 14 can be gripped moreover the optical fiber cable 14 is freed from its coating in the region of the welding point 15 over a length of approximately 8 mm the anti kink guard 13 the crimping ring 12 and the basic housing 11 are now pushed in sequence over the cladding 17 of the optical fiber cable 14 the ferrule holder 9 with the pressure spring 10 mounted at the rear is pushed on under the cladding 17 opened by longitudinal slots 17 a the optical fiber still projecting with its coating 7 over a length of approximately 10 mm the optical fiber cable 14 to be connected is thereby prepared for splicing over a total length of approximately 38 mm with the end.