Device for heat transfer and method for making it, the device having a housing with a heat exchanger disposed within and completely enclosed by the housing having a receiving element and cover element integrated within receiving element. First fluid flows through heat exchanger to be cooled; another fluid flows around heat exchanger. Heat transfer elements are shaped as a plate of a first jacket element and a second jacket element as well as a fin element; each includes a throughflow sector for inflow and outflow of first fluid. Each throughflow sector is developed on a front face of heat transfer element. Fin element has a lesser dimension in a longitudinal direction than jacket elements and is disposed therebetween such that in the proximity of a second front face, located distally to first front face, a free region is developed for deflecting direction of flow of first fluid.