pplucky and others following my workaround. Please have a look at the following blog item: https://www.openmediavault.org/?p=3492 . This item mentions that the issue is revolving around systemd in combination with DHCP.
I had my system configured with DHCP for the IP address, forcing an IP using my router. As I had made snapshots of the system I could roll back and try the mentioned option of setting a fixed IP address. This also solved my problem without updating to a backport version.
Too bad that that solution did not get mentioned in this thread.
Thanks for getting back on this. I also had DHCP on OMV and fixed IP on router, but I also did that to avoid possible future issues.