A drive unit for an adjustment drive comprising a gearbox with a drive wheel that is drivable in a rotating manner about a drive axis and operatively engages with a gearbox wheel that is mounted in the gearbox so as to be rotatable about a gearbox axis, wherein the gearbox is assembled from a drive module that has the drive wheel and a gearbox module that has the gearbox wheel, wherein the drive module and the gearbox module include respective joining sections that are directed towards one another and are connected via a joining connection, wherein for bracing the drive module and the gearbox module in a region of the joining connection at least one of the drive module or the gearbox module has an elastic tensioning element that tensions the joining sections against one another and the other of the drive module and the gearbox module has a form-fit element with an undercut, wherein the elastic tensioning element is engaged with the undercut of the form-fitting element to form the joining connection.