Filter element and filter arrangement

A filter element for a filter arrangement, the filter element comprising:

• a filter media forming a filter bellows;
• an end disk arranged on an axial end of the filter bellows of the filter element;
• wherein the end disk forms a frame which encircles radially outer lateral surfaces of the filter bellows of the filter element;
• wherein the frame of end disk that has at least one contact surface for contacting a clamping surface of at least one clamping element of the filter arrangement;
• wherein the at least one contact surface of the frame formed by the end disk has straight segments and oblique segments arranged end to end, with the oblique segments arranged between the straight segments;
• and
• wherein the straight segments are arranged such that the clamping surface when the latter is displaced relative to the at least on contact surface essentially exclusively contacts the oblique segments.