The invention concerns a hydraulic axial piston machine with a housing, in which a cylinder drum having at least one cylinder is arranged to be rotatable around an axis, in which cylinder is located a piston that is supported on a swashplate, whose inclination angle is adjustable in an adjustment plane. It is endeavored to keep the cost of manufacturing individual parts of the axial piston machine small. For this purpose it is provided that on the side facing away from the cylinder drum (4) the swashplate (12) has a spherical bearing surface (15), which rests on a spherical supporting surface (16) in a bottom part (3) of the housing (2) and comprises an inclination protection (31-34), which counteracts an inclination of the swashplate (12) perpendicularly to the adjustment plane.