Abstract: A vacuum switching apparatus having a pair of terminal members extending from a housing made from a fully solid insulating material such as epoxy resin, and forming an outer housing for the vacuum switching apparatus, into which a vacuum switching chamber is placed housing a fixed and a movable contact member, the movable contact member extending through metallic bellows into a sliding contact and into the coupling terminal, wherein a pair of control electrodes each being conductively coupled to a different one of the terminal members is embedded into the fully solid insulating housing and lying at the potential of the respective terminal members, a further control electrode placed in the insulating housing and lying in a region so that it will assume an intermediate potential between the terminal potentials and the ground potential and wherein further a grounded outer metallic casing encloses insulating housing.