In this paper the structure of automata is investigated using the concept of the automorphism group. The investigations about strongly connected automata are extended to cyclic (Oehmke) and normal automata. The set of states is divided into equivalence classes of strongly connected subsets (SCEC). In the set of all SCEC we explain a partial ordering whose minimal elements are called sourceclasses. If there is only one source-classe, the automaton is called cyclic. If each automorphism maps every SCEC onto itself, then the automaton is said to be normal. We generalize some results ofA. Fleck [1]. In some cases we restrict ourselves to Abelian automata.