Abstract: A rotor for a permanent magnet synchronous machine includes a basic body defining a center. Permanent magnets are arranged on a circumferential surface of the basic body to thereby form magnetic poles. Each magnetic pole is formed in a circumferential direction by at least two permanent magnets and defined by a pole center and a pole edge, wherein the pole edge is spaced from the center of the basic body at a distance which is smaller than a distance of the pole center to the center of the basic body. Positioned in sections between the pole centers of adjacent pole are filling elements, with a banding securing the filling elements on the permanent magnets in such a way that the rotor has a substantially cylindrical circumferential surface.