The invention relates to an electronic device (100), comprising:-a switching device (102) for switching a main current path (103), the switching device (102) having n
semiconductor switching cells (102.1, 102.2,..., 102. N) connected in series, where n is a natural number other than zero,-a
voltage limiting device (114) connected in parallel with the switching device (102), the invention relates to a
voltage limiting device (100), comprising at least one
overvoltage protection means (107) and at least one bidirectional trigger
diode (109) connected in series with the at least one
overvoltage protection means (107), and n
overvoltage arresters (110, 110.1, 110.2,..., 110. N), each of the n overvoltage arresters (110, 110.1, 110.2,..., 110. N) being connected in parallel with each of the n
semiconductor switching units (102.1, 102.2,..., 102. N) in a bijection-
dependent manner.