To provide a drive apparatus for a paper processing machine which is designed as a direct drive apparatus for individual rotating components, does not need any connections and can connect the rotating components individually driven through a train of common gears.

The electric drive apparatus is a paper processing apparatus, especially an electric drive apparatus for a printer provided with two rotatable partial assemblies 1, 2, and comprises a stator 4 and a rotor 3. The stator 4 and the rotor 3 are separated by an air gap. In the electric drive apparatus, one partial assembly 1 includes the rotor 3 and another partial assembly 2 includes the stator 4.