Abstract: An electrically driven diaphragm suction or pressure pump includes an oscillating anchor magnet that serves as the driving motor. The oscillating anchor magnet has a magnet coil (16), which is concentrically enclosed by a ferromagnetic closing cage (19) which is discontinuous in a circumferential direction. In the interior space of the magnet coil (16), the closing cage forms two pole rings (25,26), separated from one another in the axial direction by a circular slot (27). The closing cage is tightly arranged in a case (28,29). To obtain a high efficiency and high pump capacities, the central anchor shank (39), which is connected to the pump diaphragm, of the oscillating anchor (8), which is provided with a ferromagnetic solenoid plunger (38), is attached to two leaf-type vibratory springs (42, 43), each of which carries and centers on one side an end section projecting out of the closing cage (19) of the magnet coil (16).