An electrical conductor L is specified, which has a central core (1) and at least two layers which are arranged above the core (1) and are composed of electrically conductive individual wires, which are twisted around the core (1) in a first layer (2) and around the first layer (2) in a second layer (4). The individual wires of the first layer (2) are steel wires with an ultimate tensile strength of between 800 N/mm2 and 2000 N/mm2, and the individual wires of the second layer (4) are copper wires with an ultimate tensile strength of between 250 N/mm2 and 400 N/mm2. A wire composed of a soft-annealed copper with an ultimate tensile strength of at least 210 N/mm2 is used as the core (1). The lay length of the copper wires (5) is between 8×D and 18×D where D is the diameter of the conductor L over the second layer.