A method for assisting the oscillating starting process of an electromechanical oscillator (10) has the following steps: detection of oscillator oscillations (1b, 1c) which occur in the output signal (1a) from the electromechanical oscillator (10); generation of an excitation pulse (3b) on the basis of a detected oscillator oscillation (1c); and feeding (3a) of the excitation pulse (3b) to the electromechanical oscillator (10).