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 between the piston chamber and the reservoir, a fluid connection 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 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 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 between the piston chamber and the reservoir is closed and the fluid connection 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 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 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 between the piston chamber and the reservoir is closed and the fluid connection between the rod-chamber-side port of the hydro-machine and the reservoir is closed. <EOS>