A mechanical field-attenuating mechanism for a rotor of an electric machine, wherein the rotor has at least one first rotor body and a second rotor body, wherein the first rotor body and the second rotor body are rotatable relative to each other about a common rotational axis against an effect of a first torsional stiffness,
- wherein the first torsional stiffness is designed as a first leg spring arrangement having a first leg spring, which is arranged coaxially to the rotational axis and between the first rotor body and the second rotor body or between one of the rotor bodies and a rotor shaft in such a way that rotation of one of the rotor bodies, which begins when the field-attenuating mechanism is adjusted, causes the first leg spring to open or close, and
- wherein a first spring leg of the first leg spring is held in a first receiving shoe, which in turn is received in a first receiving pocket of the first rotor body and is fixed to the first rotor body in such a way that the first spring leg of the first leg spring is coupled to the first rotor body in a play-free manner in an axial direction as well as in a circumferential direction relative to the first rotor body.