Switch, comprising: - a housing; - a nominal contact arrangement (117, 115, 124); and - a first contact arrangement, having a first commutation contact element and a first contact; and - a second contact arrangement, having a second commutation contact element and a second contact, wherein the first contact is moveable along an axis between a closed contact position, in which the first contact engages with the second contact, and an open contact position, in which the first contact is separated from the second contact, and wherein the first commutation contact element is moveable along an axis between a closed commutation contact element position, in which the first commutation contact element engages with the second commutation contact element, and an open commutation contact element position, in which the first commutation contact element is separated from the second commutation contact element, wherein the first commutation contact element and the second commutation contact element are designed, in the closed commutation contact element position, to mutually constitute a snap-action connection, and wherein, when the switch is closed, a distance between the first contact and the second contact, in relation to a distance between the first commutation contact element and the second commutation contact element in the direction of the axis, is smaller, and wherein the first commutation contact element is coupled to the first contact via a first limit stop, a second limit stop and an elastic element such that a) when the first contact is moved to the closed contact position, the first limit stop entrains the first commutation contact element to the closed commutation contact element position, b) when the first contact, with the snap-action connection in place, is moved from the closed contact position in the direction of the open contact position, the elastic element applies tension to the first commutation contact element in the direction of the open commutation contact element position, c) when the first contact, during the movement thereof in the direction of the open contact position, overshoots a defined limit stop position, the second limit stop entrains the first commutation contact element in the direction of the open commutation contact element position, in order to release the snap-action connection. - a housing; - a nominal contact arrangement (117, 115, 124); and - a first contact arrangement, having a first commutation contact element and a first contact; and - a second contact arrangement, having a second commutation contact element and a second contact, a) when the first contact is moved to the closed contact position, the first limit stop entrains the first commutation contact element to the closed commutation contact element position, b) when the first contact, with the snap-action connection in place, is moved from the closed contact position in the direction of the open contact position, the elastic element applies tension to the first commutation contact element in the direction of the open commutation contact element position, c) when the first contact, during the movement thereof in the direction of the open contact position, overshoots a defined limit stop position, the second limit stop entrains the first commutation contact element in the direction of the open commutation contact element position, in order to release the snap-action connection.