Abstract: A circuit arrangement for supplying a high-power functional component with high-voltage pulses, having two input terminals for applying an input voltage, two output terminals for connection to a high-voltage terminal contacts of the high-power functional component, a plurality of charge storage modules, which each contain a capacitive element, and which are connected in series via at least one first switching device to the input terminals and via at least one second switching device to the output terminals, and a control device for activating the individual charge storage modules and the first and second switching devices.