A rotary auxiliary switch for medium voltage switchgears, has a lever with a cam track, along which a driving element is movable. In order to cause the lever to be covered in such a way, the operator cannot touch the application, such that the lever is split into two complementarily lever components the two components creating a hinge, when they are mechanically mounted, the resulting cam track also being splitted into two cam track parts, such that a partly first cam track is located in the first lever component, and the partly second cam track is located in the second lever component.