An electric heating device comprised a housing having a partition wall, which separates a connection chamber from a heating chamber for dissipating heat and from which at least one PTC heating element protrudes as a heating rib in the direction toward the heating chamber. The PTC heating device comprises at least one PTC element and conductor tracks that are electrically connected in the connection chamber for energizing the PTC element with different polarities and that are connected to the PTC element in an electrically conductive manner. The heating chamber, in a top view onto the partition wall, has a substantially rectangular base area. The PTC heating devices are arranged obliquely relative to the base area for a more compact configuration of the electric heating device.