Abstract: The instant invention relates to a steering wheel with electric heating and to a process for its manufacture. In a first embodiment of the invention a heating conductor made of spring steel (7) is used and is imbedded in an outer zone of the steering wheel sheath with spring force directed outwardly and which is wound so that it provides interconnected, clamp-like open windings (8). This configuration of the spring wire (7) causes it to adhere to the inside of the torus-shaped foaming ring (5) during the foaming process in manufacture, so that it is thereby held in the desired position and need not be slung around the steering wheel core (6) with individual windings. In a further embodiment of the invention the heating conductor is formed so that the sheath consists of foaming material into which the appropriate amount of conductive particles is incorporated.