A drive device, having a drive housing with a brushless electric motor which can be installed therein and has a stator winding and a rotor and motor electronics with a printed circuit board, the electric motor being insertable into the drive housing via a housing opening. A main stator body has a number of stator teeth which are arranged in a star shape and around which the stator winding is wound, a number of phase connections of the stator winding being guided into an in particular radially oriented joining position. The printed circuit board has a number of connection sockets corresponding to the number of phase connections, said connection sockets receiving the phase connections as the electric motor is inserted into the drive housing.