Abstract: A plug socket for establishing a high-current electrical connection and including a metal body formed along a portion of its longitudinal extent as a hollow cylinder section, and a contact spring jack received in the hollow cylinder section and having a plurality of linear, substantially hyperbolically extending, contact elements connected at their opposite ends by respective circumferential material bands, with the contact spring jack being anchored, at its rear, with respect to a plug-in direction of an associated contact pin, end in the hollow cylinder section with a press fit, and with its front, in the plug-in direction of the associated contact pin, end forming a sliding fit connection with the hollow cylinder section.