Abstract: The invention relates to a method for capturing an absolute rotational position of a shaft using at least two rotational material measures which are synchronously coupled to the shaft, comprising material measures with a different number of graduations which are each relatively prime in pairs, a determination of the state of the individual material measures by means of sensors, wherein a quantizable number of rotational states Ni is captured for each material measure, the total measurement range of the capture system is determined by the product N=?i=1 Ni of the possible states of all material measure, and each combination of states (a0, a1, a2, . . . , an) occurs exactly once within the total measurement range N, with the result that the absolute position of the shaft can be determined at any time from the combination of states of the material measures.