Unecessary white space around .svg figure

Question

I have to write a report for school and I need to include a UML class diagram for a Java assignment. I am using the PlantUML integration within IntelliJ to create a beautiful diagram without any whitespace around it. But when I put it into my LaTeX report I get So much white space that it's hard to read...

This is my code to include the .svg figure:

begin{figure}[h]
    includesvg[width=textwidth, inkscapelatex=false]{uml}
    caption{Ett UML-diagram över klasserna i systemet.}
    label{fig:uml}
end{figure}

MWE:

documentclass[11pt, titlepage, oneside, a4paper]{article}
usepackage{graphicx}
usepackage{svg}
usepackage{float}

begin{document}
    begin{figure}[h]
        fontsize{11}{13}selectfont
        includesvg[width=columnwidth, inkscapelatex=false]{uml}
        caption{Ett UML-diagram över klasserna i systemet.}
        label{fig:uml}
    end{figure}
end{document}

Result:

This is my goal. I'm using a .png here, which is lower quality and doesn't store vectors. As you can see the image doesn't have unnecessary whitespace above the caption:

Robin Schmidt · Answer

I would've added this as a comment but my reputation is too low to comment:

What I end up doing on such occasians is one of the following things:

Use an image editor to manually remove any unwanted whitespace before including the svg in LateX (e.g. Inkscape). Even if you think there is none take a look and verify it.
Use an online alternative for cleaning up your svg file (e.g. https://jakearchibald.github.io/svgomg/) even though I do not know if this exact one fulfils your purpose
If you can export your diagram as a cropped pdf that usually is another way to try remove the unwanted whitespace.
Try any other vector format which you can export to from your framework and try including that in your report.

I know that these are not the "best" solutions and there is probably a native LateX solution but I just wanted to give a little help.

Unecessary white space around .svg figure

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