An apparatus for expanding and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard packagings to standing compartments and/or outer packagings comprising: - a cardboard packaging supply comprising at least one stack of flatly collapsed cardboard packagings arranged lying on top of each other, - an erecting device arranged next to the cardboard packaging supply as seen in the direction of a horizontal axis, and - a gripping device for the simultaneous seizing of respectively one topmost cardboard packaging from each stack of the cardboard packaging supply, wherein: - the cardboard packagings respectively consist of a plurality of cardboard packaging walls interconnected with each other, of which respectively at least two cardboard packaging walls connected with each other form a top flat side and a bottom flat side of a flatly collapsed cardboard packaging, - per each cardboard packaging simultaneously seized by the gripping device, the gripping device has at least one tool with which a cardboard packaging lying topmost on a stack is holdable at a cardboard packaging wall of its top flat side, - the gripping device has at least one manipulator with a manipulator head that is at least horizontally movable along a horizontal axis, at which manipulator head the at least one tool of the gripping device is arranged, by means of which manipulator head the at least one tool of the gripping device is movable at least horizontally in space between the cardboard packaging supply and the erecting device, characterized in that - the erecting device has at least one carrier which is pivotable back and forth about a horizontal pivoting axis from a horizontal position to a vertical position and vice versa, and - the erecting device has at least one tool arranged at its at least one carrier per each cardboard packaging that is simultaneously seizable by the gripping device, with which tool, in its horizontal position, a cardboard packaging having been brought to the erecting device by means of the gripping device is seized at a cardboard packaging wall of its bottom flat side and is holdable at least until the end of a pivoting of the at least one carrier from its horizontal position into its vertical position, said pivoting taking place after the subsequently carried out expanding of the cardboard packaging to a lying set of compartments and/or to an outer packaging by an increase of the distance between the tools (61, 52) of the gripping device and the erecting device along a vertical axis, and after the release of the at least one tool of the gripping device after the expanding. - a cardboard packaging supply comprising at least one stack of flatly collapsed cardboard packagings arranged lying on top of each other, - an erecting device arranged next to the cardboard packaging supply as seen in the direction of a horizontal axis, and - a gripping device for the simultaneous seizing of respectively one topmost cardboard packaging from each stack of the cardboard packaging supply, - the cardboard packagings respectively consist of a plurality of cardboard packaging walls interconnected with each other, of which respectively at least two cardboard packaging walls connected with each other form a top flat side and a bottom flat side of a flatly collapsed cardboard packaging, - per each cardboard packaging simultaneously seized by the gripping device, the gripping device has at least one tool with which a cardboard packaging lying topmost on a stack is holdable at a cardboard packaging wall of its top flat side, - the gripping device has at least one manipulator with a manipulator head that is at least horizontally movable along a horizontal axis, at which manipulator head the at least one tool of the gripping device is arranged, by means of which manipulator head the at least one tool of the gripping device is movable at least horizontally in space between the cardboard packaging supply and the erecting device, - the erecting device has at least one carrier which is pivotable back and forth about a horizontal pivoting axis from a horizontal position to a vertical position and vice versa, and - the erecting device has at least one tool arranged at its at least one carrier per each cardboard packaging that is simultaneously seizable by the gripping device, with which tool, in its horizontal position, a cardboard packaging having been brought to the erecting device by means of the gripping device is seized at a cardboard packaging wall of its bottom flat side and is holdable at least until the end of a pivoting of the at least one carrier from its horizontal position into its vertical position, said pivoting taking place after the subsequently carried out expanding of the cardboard packaging to a lying set of compartments and/or to an outer packaging by an increase of the distance between the tools (61, 52) of the gripping device and the erecting device along a vertical axis, and after the release of the at least one tool of the gripping device after the expanding.