Abstract: An apparatus for damping courses of motion in particular for damping resilient wheel suspension systems in vehicles, having a damping piston that is displaceable inside a jacket tube which separates two work chambers and is connected to a piston rod. Between the work chambers there are flow connections, through which a flow is possible in only one direction, because of a unilateral actuation direction of separate check valves. The flow connections have throttle cross sections the size of which is definable by the position of a control slide inside a guide bore. The control slide is actuated via a control rod leading outside the jacket tube and is movable with two degrees of freedom. A motion in the direction of the first degree of freedom varies the throttle cross sections in the same direction, while a motion of the control slide in the direction of the second degree of freedom varies the throttle cross sections in opposite directions.