Stator for a rotating electrical machine

A rotating electric machine, comprising a stator, said stator comprising a laminated core including a plurality of mutually connected stator segments which extend from a first end face to an opposite second end face of the laminated core, each of the stator segments including a plurality of grooves that extend in an axial direction, an electrically conductive winding designed as a double-layer bar winding, said winding including a winding top layer which comprises a plurality of electrically conductive top bars, and a winding bottom layer which comprises a plurality of electrically conductive bottom bars, said top bars and bottom bars being arranged such that each of the grooves of the stator segments receives a corresponding one of the top bars and a corresponding one of the bottom bars in adjacent relationship in a radial direction, with the top bars and the bottom bars protruding on the first and second end faces with an end face region out of the grooves in the axial direction, and a connecting element designed to electrically conductively connect a free end of a corresponding one of the top bars of one of the stator segments to a free end of a corresponding one of the bottom bars of an adjacent one of the stator segments, with the corresponding one of the bottom bars being offset with respect to the corresponding one of the top bars in a circumferential direction, said connecting element including two ends and an inclined section to connect the two ends to one another, with the ends being angled with respect to the inclined section, one of the two ends of the connecting element being electrically conductively connected to the free end of the corresponding one of the bottom bars and the other one of the two ends of the connecting element being electrically conductively connected to the free end of the corresponding one of the top bars.