Four-pole synchronous reluctance motor having - a stator having 48 stator slots for receiving a winding system, - a reluctance rotor that is spaced from the stator by an air gap, wherein the reluctance rotor has a laminated stack as a magnetically active part and said laminated stack is formed from multiple layers or laminations that in each case have a magnetically soft, in particular ferromagnetic, material, wherein these layers have electrically insulating part layers, and are arranged axially aligned, wherein the reluctance rotor has axes having a high magnetic conductivity (d-axis) and axes having a low magnetic conductivity (q-axis), wherein the reluctance rotor has axes having a high magnetic conductivity (d-axis) and axes having a low magnetic conductivity (q-axis), - an arrangement of magnetically conductive flux guiding sections and magnetic flux blockers that form d- and q-axes of the reluctance rotor by a corresponding arrangement, - wherein a number of flux barriers is maximised in dependence upon the selected number of rotor slots or the slot division angle αr, wherein the flux barrier is a connecting piece that is located on the end of a flux blocker in the region of the air gap of the dynamoelectric machine, - wherein the flux blockers are embodied in the region of the q-axis either radially extending stabilising connecting pieces or without stabilising connecting rods, - wherein the reluctance rotor does not have any permanent magnets, characterised in that - a geometric slot dividing angle of the reluctance rotor of αr = 6° that is between two adjacent magnetic flux blockers on the air gap, and - the flux barriers in the region of the d-axis are embodied as radially thinner than in the region of the q axis. - a stator having 48 stator slots for receiving a winding system, - a reluctance rotor that is spaced from the stator by an air gap, wherein the reluctance rotor has a laminated stack as a magnetically active part and said laminated stack is formed from multiple layers or laminations that in each case have a magnetically soft, in particular ferromagnetic, material, wherein these layers have electrically insulating part layers, and are arranged axially aligned, wherein the reluctance rotor has axes having a high magnetic conductivity (d-axis) and axes having a low magnetic conductivity (q-axis), wherein the reluctance rotor has axes having a high magnetic conductivity (d-axis) and axes having a low magnetic conductivity (q-axis), - an arrangement of magnetically conductive flux guiding sections and magnetic flux blockers that form d- and q-axes of the reluctance rotor by a corresponding arrangement, - wherein a number of flux barriers is maximised in dependence upon the selected number of rotor slots or the slot division angle αr, wherein the flux barrier is a connecting piece that is located on the end of a flux blocker in the region of the air gap of the dynamoelectric machine, - wherein the flux blockers are embodied in the region of the q-axis either radially extending stabilising connecting pieces or without stabilising connecting rods, - wherein the reluctance rotor does not have any permanent magnets, characterised in that - a geometric slot dividing angle of the reluctance rotor of αr = 6° that is between two adjacent magnetic flux blockers on the air gap, and - the flux barriers in the region of the d-axis are embodied as radially thinner than in the region of the q axis.