Filter device and filter element

A filter device, comprising:

• a filter housing being mountable in a fluid supply tank and having a housing wall with a plurality of fluid passage points;
• a filter element being mounted in said filter housing and having an element material though which fluid to be filtered can flow from an inside of said element material to an outside of said element material in a radial flow direction relative to a longitudinal axis of said element material;
• a fluid inlet in direct fluid communication with said inside of said element material;
• a support tube enclosing said element material and being surrounded at a radial distance by said housing wall defining a flow space radially between said support tube and said housing wall relative to said longitudinal axis;
• and
• first and second passage openings in said support tube, each of said first passage openings having a flow guide providing filtered fluid passing therethrough with a flow direction different from the radial flow direction and with a swirl flow only circumferentially and axially about said support tube in said flow space such that the filtered fluid only flows circumferentially and axially about said support tube throughout said flow space from said first passage openings.