An integrated charge pump is provided, comprising: a pump capacitor having a first terminal and a second terminal; a control unit, which operates the charge pump in an alternation between a first phase and a second phase; a first switching device in order to charge the pump capacitor with a pump voltage in the first phase; a second switching device in order to pull the potential of the first terminal to a predetermined potential in the second phase, and in order to connect the second terminal of the pump capacitor to an output node, the second switching device having a first transistor in order to connect the second terminal of the pump capacitor to the output node, a substrate terminal of the first transistor being fixedly connected to the output node; and the second switching device pulling the first terminal to the predetermined potential with a gradient, the gradient being chosen such that at no point in time is a diode breakdown voltage exceeded in the first transistor.