Switching device for conducting high continuous currents and very high short-circuit currents

The invention relates to a switching device (1) for conducting high continuous currents and very high short-circuit currents. The aim of the invention is to provide a switching device which avoids the problems known in the prior art and which, in particular, can guide high continuous currents and also higher short-term currents in the non-isolated state, i.e. In the contact-on state, without welding. According to the invention, this problem is solved in that the switching device (1) comprises at least two contact points (9, 10), each of which comprises a movable contact (11) and a fixed contact (12), one of the contacts (12) of each contact point (9, 10) is formed in a socket (13) and the other contact (11) of each contact point (9, 10) is formed on a pin (14) which can be accommodated in the socket (13), and the movable contacts (11) of the two contact points (9, 10) are designed as a common component, one of the two contacts (12) at at least one of the contact points (9, 10) has a flute (26) such that a plu