PSTricks not working in document but in minimal example

Question

I'm trying to get pictures with pstricks working in my thesis. I tried to run some code from LatexDraw but when this didn't work I tried to get the minimal example from here to run: PSTricks picture not compiling with pdfLaTeX

If I only put this code in a file an run pdflatex --shell-escape test.tex it works as expected. However if I copy it into my thesis it fails with this error message:

  -------------------------------------------------
  auto-pst-pdf: Auxiliary LaTeX compilation
  -------------------------------------------------
  This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012)
  entering extended mode
  This is dvips(k) 5.992 Copyright 2012 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
  ' TeX output 2013.10.10:1955' -> gliederung-autopp.ps
  </usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf/dvips/base/tex.pro>
  </usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf/dvips/config/alt-rule.pro>
  </usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/dvips/pstricks/pstricks.pro>
  </usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/dvips/pstricks/pst-algparser.pro>
  </usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/dvips/pst-tools/pst-tools.pro>
  </usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/dvips/pstricks/pst-dots.pro>
  </usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf/dvips/base/special.pro>. [1]
  Error: /typecheck in --div--
  Operand stack:
     1   0   0.0   -0.0478856   a   65781.8
  Execution stack:
     %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1894   1   3   %oparray_pop   1893   1   3   %oparray_pop   1877   1   3   %oparray_pop   1771   1   3   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   %errorexec_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   4   --nostringval--   %repeat_continue   --nostringval--
  Dictionary stack:
     --dict:1158/1684(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:117/200(L)--   --dict:99/300(L)--
  Current allocation mode is local
  Last OS error: 2
  Current file position is 84788
  GPL Ghostscript 9.05: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
  PDFCROP 1.38, 2012/11/02 - Copyright (c) 2002-2012 by Heiko Oberdiek.

  !!! Warning: Empty Bounding Box is returned by Ghostscript!
  !!!   Page 1: 0 0 0 0
  !!! Either there is a problem with the page or with Ghostscript.
  !!! Recovery is tried by embedding the page in its original size.

Anyone got some hints on what to do? I'm adding my preamble in case there should be something odd in it.

\documentclass[bigchapter,twoside,report,11pt,type=bsc,colorback,accentcolor=tud2c]{tudthesis}
\usepackage{ngerman}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{amsmath}

\usepackage{microtype}
\usepackage[ngerman,pdfview=FitH,pdfstartview=FitV]{hyperref}

%\usepackage{pgfplots}
%\pgfplotsset{compat=newest}

%\KOMAoptions{cleardoublepage=realempty}

\usepackage{bibgerm}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{inconsolata}
%\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\lstset{framextopmargin=50pt,frame=bottomline}
\lstset{language=Matlab,
   %keywords={break,case,catch,continue,else,elseif,end,for,function,
      %global,if,otherwise,persistent,return,switch,try,while},
   basicstyle=\ttfamily,
   breaklines=true,
   keywordstyle=\color{tud1c},
   commentstyle=\color{tud9c},
   stringstyle=\color{tud4c},
   numbers=left,
   numberstyle=\tiny\color{tud0c},
   stepnumber=1,
   numbersep=5pt,
   backgroundcolor=\color{white},
   tabsize=4,
   showspaces=false,
   showstringspaces=false}

 \usepackage[pdf]{pstricks}