空行中意外的'<'

<head>

    <title>Login</title>
    <?php

        if($verhalten == 1) 
        {
            /* The important line */
    ?>

        <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="3; URL=seite2.php"/>

    <?php

        }

    ?>

</head>

...

This is my code in general. The problem is that PHP is telling me that there is an unexpected '<' in line 38 (the line that i marked) even though the line is completly empty. Ive read through the other questions, but none of them seem to be helping me. Its prolly just a dumb mistake, but it would be quite nice of you to tell me where it is, because i have no idea where it could be.

I think this is what you are trying to do. This should't throw any errors.

<head>

<title>Login</title>
<?php

    if($verhalten == 1) 
    {
      echo '<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="3; URL=seite2.php"/>';
    }
?>
</head>