Electric machine, in particular a transverse flux machine, the stator being composed of a stack of a number m of sub-stacks (U, V, W), the sub-stacks (U, V, W) being arranged stacked one on top of the other in the stacking direction, each sub-stack (U, V, W) being composed of a number k of stator phase winding segments stacked one on top of the other in the stacking direction, each stator phase winding segment having at least one or at least two stator segments and a stator winding, in particular an individual winding, each stator segment having an annular stator web on which pole shoes are formed, which in particular extend radially inwards and/or which extend towards the rotor and/or which are arranged between the rotor and the annular stator web, the pole shoes in particular being identically moulded, the orientation of the current in the windings of two stator phase winding segments of a particular sub-stack that are adjacent in the stacking direction being in opposite directions, in particular the winding directions are thus opposite, each two adjacent stator phase winding segments in the stacking direction having a nonnegligible offset from one another in the circumferential direction, the offset angle of the stator phase winding segments in the axial direction in particular increasing strictly monotonically or the offset angle of the stator phase winding segments in the axial direction decreasing strictly monotonically, each stator phase winding segment being rotated in the circumferential direction by an offset angle (α U,n, α V,n, α W,n) with respect to the first stator phase winding segment of the first sub-stack, in particular therefore with respect to the axially foremost stator phase winding segment, the relevant negative offset angle (-α U,n, -α V,n, -α W,n) deviating by less than 3% from the value determined according to α U, n = 1 p 180 ° ⋅ n − 1 k ⋅ m − f n or α V, n = 1 p 180 ° ⋅ n − 1 k ⋅ m − f n + 120 ° or α W, n = 1 p 180 ° ⋅ n − 1 k ⋅ m + f n − 1 + 240 °, where U, V, W number the sub-stacks sequentially, in particular therefore are assigned to the relevant phase, where the parameter n numbers the stator phase winding segments of a particular sub-stack (U, V, W) sequentially, and in each case, i.e. for each sub-stack, the values increase from 1 to k, where n, m, k are natural numbers, in particular where the parameter m describes the number of phase windings, in particular therefore the number of phases (U, V, W), and is greater than two, where the parameter k describes the number of stator phase winding segments per sub-stack, in particular therefore per phase, in particular where m = 3, where the following applies: f n = { 1 for n even 0 for n odd characterised in that as the radial clearance increases, the area value of the sectional surface of the pole shoe at a first surface deviates from the area value of the pole shoe side face on the air gap side, i.e. the side face facing the rotor, by at least less than 20%, - the first surface being a tangential plane which has the particular radial clearance from the rotor shaft axis, is oriented in parallel with the rotor shaft axis, has the radial clearance, is oriented perpendicularly to the plane of symmetry and the normal direction of which connects the rotor shaft axis to the centre of gravity of the pole shoe - or the first face being a cylinder outer surface that has the particular radial clearance from the rotor shaft axis and is oriented in parallel with the rotor shaft axis. - the first surface being a tangential plane which has the particular radial clearance from the rotor shaft axis, is oriented in parallel with the rotor shaft axis, has the radial clearance, is oriented perpendicularly to the plane of symmetry and the normal direction of which connects the rotor shaft axis to the centre of gravity of the pole shoe - or the first face being a cylinder outer surface that has the particular radial clearance from the rotor shaft axis and is oriented in parallel with the rotor shaft axis.