Abstract: A vibration damper includes a cylinder and a piston rod which is free to move back and forth in the cylinder in the axial direction. The piston rod is connected to a component to be damped by a connecting bearing and the cylinder is installed in a sleeve tube. The cylinder has on its outside surface a support ring, which is supported axially on the sleeve tube by a detachable fastening disk, and an additional bearing compensates for angular movement of the component to be damped with respect to the assembly to be supported. The sleeve tube has at one end a bottom piece, to which the additional bearing is attached, and also has an axial support surface facing away from the bottom piece for the support ring. The detachable fastening disk is accessible from the direction of the piston rod.