A seatbelt retractor having a toothed control disk on a belt shaft and an electrically actuatable blocking device and a blocking lever mounted in a pivot bearing, wherein the electrically actuatable blocking device stops the control disk with respect to the belt shaft and, as a result, the belt shaft is blocked in the pull-out direction, wherein the blocking lever has a lever arm upon which a first spring acts, which spring preloads into position the blocking lever having an arranged blocking tip so that this blocking tip engages in the toothing of the control disk, and an electromagnet that is arranged in the housing, wherein the blocking tip is retracted from the toothing of the control disk, wherein a second spring rests with its blocking arm against the second spring and is loaded by the blocking arm.