Inductive angle sensor having two pickup coil arrangements arranged offset from one another

An inductive angle sensor, comprising:

• a stator;
• a rotor that is rotatable relative to the stator about an axis of rotation R, wherein the rotor has an inductive target arrangement with k-fold symmetry, and wherein the stator has a first pickup coil arrangement with k-fold symmetry and a second pickup coil arrangement with k-fold symmetry,
• wherein the first pickup coil arrangement and the second pickup coil arrangement are each arranged around the axis of rotation and each have the same number of single pickup coils,
• wherein the single pickup coils of the first pickup coil arrangement are rotationally offset about the axis of rotation by a geometric offset angle α relative to one another, and wherein the single pickup coils of the second pickup coil arrangement are rotationally offset about the axis of rotation by the same geometric offset angle α relative to one another,
• wherein the geometric offset angle α for the first and the second pickup coil arrangements having an even number of single pickup coils is calculated as:
• α=360°/k/M/2, and
• wherein the geometric offset angle α for the first and the second pickup coil arrangements having an uneven number of single pickup coils is calculated as:
• α=360°/k/M,
• where M denotes the number of single pickup coils present per pickup coil arrangement of the first pickup coil arrangement and the second pickup coil arrangement,
• a combination circuit configured to perform a signal combination, wherein signals of the first pickup coil arrangement are combined with signals of the second pickup coil arrangement so as, on a basis of the signal combination, to ascertain an angle-error-compensated rotation angle between the stator and the rotor, and
• wherein an entire first pickup coil arrangement is rotationally offset about the axis of rotation by a geometric offset angle ρ relative to an entire second pickup coil arrangement.