1. A thermal imaging camera for taking thermographic images of a measurement object in the infrared region, with a display tool built in or on the housing for a representation of the acquired thermographic images, where the thermal imaging camera is made as a hand-held unit configured to acquire thermographic images with a swiveling motion of the thermographic camera, said thermal imaging camera comprising an electronic evaluation unit configured to stitch at least one acquired thermographic image with another thermographic image, where the images each repeat a same image region of the measurement object, said thermographic images being stitched about said same image regions to form a thermographic overall image that can be displayed with the display tool, with correction being made for the swiveling motion of the thermal imaging camera by assembling the acquired thermographic images using a set of undistorted stripes configured to limit distortion of the acquired thermographic images, where the display tool has a zoom function for free selection of an image segment of the overall image that is to be magnified.