The invention relates to a concealed fastening of a door handle on a panelling of a vehicle door, vehicle flap or the like, with a handle plate which rests on the panelling and which has, in a fastening region, a hook arm which projects from its rear side and passes through a clearance in the panelling and which is pushed, with an end region engaging behind, onto a support bearing arranged movably on the rear side of the panelling. The end region is held at a distance from the engaged behind counterface of the support bearing and rests with a spacer means on the counter face of the support bearing, and the distance between a pressure face of the spacer means loading the support bearing and the end region being variably changeable in order to compensate production tolerances. In order to allow a quicker mounting of the door handle without any loss of mounting accuracy, the spacer means is arranged on the hook arm so as to be displaceable transversely to the counter face of the support bearing and is held under a spring load in its bearing position on the support bearing.