Abstract: A closing mechanism for cabinets having a plurality of drawers includes vertically displaceable closing rods and cam pieces mounted on the sides of the drawers. Each closing rod has pins projecting toward the drawers. The cam pieces are provided with stop members which interact with the pins. A holding device serves to hold the closing rods in a displaced position. Each cam piece has an initially obliquely ascending guide surface which is integrated in the cam piece. The cam pieces are arranged at different distances from the closing rods, and the cam pieces of each drawer are arranged differently. The cam pieces and the stop members are mounted so as to be displaceable in longitudinal direction of the sides of the drawers. The cam pieces can be clamped in the selected positions relative to the closing rods.