Abstract: This invention relates to an improvement in a drive for a high-speed axle or shaft or a spindle in which a spinning can having a radially-extending wall is mounted at one end of a rotatable shaft, said can being positioned opposite a parallel housing wall with a gap between them, and in which the other end of said shaft is mounted in said housing in a spiral groove cap-type bearing,The improvement comprising direct-current drive motor means with electronic commutation, the stator ring with segment winding of said motor means being mounted in said wall of said housing,Permanent magnet means in said radially-extending wall of said spinning can, said magnet means being magnetized in the direction of the longitudinal shaft axis,And disc means connecting said magnets and being capable of transmitting the magnetic field pressure flow, whereby the magnetic field is closed.