Electro-hydrostatic drive for realizing a rapid movement during a rapid movement phase, a force-building movement during a force-building movement phase and a switch over phase between the rapid movement phase and the force-building movement phase, comprising a hydro-machine with variable volume and/or variable speed, driven by an electric motor, for providing a flow of a hydraulic fluid, a first cylinder with a piston chamber, an rod chamber, and a rod, a reservoir, a second cylinder with a piston chamber, a rod chamber, and a rod, wherein the rod chamber is the reservoir, a pressure source, a relief valve, a check valve, a fluid connection between the piston chamber and a piston-chamber-side port of the hydro-machine, a fluid connection between the rod chamber and an rod-chamber-side port of the hydro-machine, a fluid connection (125, 236, 235) between the piston chamber and the reservoir, a fluid connection (237, 235) between the rod-chamber-side port of the hydro-machine and the reservoir, a fluid connection, through the relief valve, between the reservoir and the pressure source, an electronic device suitable to control the valves, wherein the relief valve is for pressure safety of the reservoir, and the check valve has a fluid connection from the pressure source to the rod-chamber-side port of the hydro-machine, the rod of the first cylinder and the rod of the second cylinder are mechanically connected via a mass, wherein the electronic device is adapted to perform the following steps: during the rapid movement phase, a first part of the hydraulic fluid flows via the fluid connection between the piston chamber and the piston-chamber-side port of the hydro-machine and the fluid connection between the rod chamber and the rod-chamber-side port of the hydro-machine, and a second part of the hydraulic fluid communicates through the fluid connection (125, 236, 235) between the piston chamber and the reservoir, during the force-building movement phase, a first part of the hydraulic fluid flows via the fluid connection between the piston chamber and the piston-chamber-side port of the hydro-machine and the fluid connection between the rod chamber and the rod-chamber-side port of the hydro-machine, and a second part of the hydraulic fluid is piped through the fluid connection (237, 235) between the rod-chamber-side port of the hydro-machine and the reservoir, characterized in that the electronic device is adapted to perform the following step: during the switch over phase, the fluid connection (125, 236, 235) between the piston chamber and the reservoir is closed and the fluid connection (237, 235) between the rod-chamber-side port of the hydro-machine and the reservoir is closed. during the rapid movement phase, a first part of the hydraulic fluid flows via the fluid connection between the piston chamber and the piston-chamber-side port of the hydro-machine and the fluid connection between the rod chamber and the rod-chamber-side port of the hydro-machine, and a second part of the hydraulic fluid communicates through the fluid connection (125, 236, 235) between the piston chamber and the reservoir, during the force-building movement phase, a first part of the hydraulic fluid flows via the fluid connection between the piston chamber and the piston-chamber-side port of the hydro-machine and the fluid connection between the rod chamber and the rod-chamber-side port of the hydro-machine, and a second part of the hydraulic fluid is piped through the fluid connection (237, 235) between the rod-chamber-side port of the hydro-machine and the reservoir, characterized in that the electronic device is adapted to perform the following step: during the switch over phase, the fluid connection (125, 236, 235) between the piston chamber and the reservoir is closed and the fluid connection (237, 235) between the rod-chamber-side port of the hydro-machine and the reservoir is closed.