Philipp Reinhard zu Solms-Hohensolms-Lich

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Philipp Reinhard Prince of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich (* 27. November 1934 in Lich , † 28. July 2015 ibid ) was a German agricultural entrepreneur and since 1951 or 1955 head of the House of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich .

family

Solms' father Hermann Otto Wilhelm Ludwig Hereditary Prince of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich (1902–1940), doctor of agriculture and forestry and reserve officer (first lieutenant in the Luftwaffe), fell in World War II. His mother Gertrud (1913–1987), born baroness and mistress of Werthern-Beichlingen , married the writer Hans Joachim Sell in 1950 as a second marriage .

Solms has four younger siblings: Dorothea Countess Razumovsky (1935–2014), publicist and journalist, Wilhelm Prinz zu Solms-Hohensolms-Lich (* 1937), Germanist and former professor of communication studies and media didactics at the Philipps University of Marburg , Eleonore von der Burg (* 1938), named after her great-aunt Eleonore zu Solms-Hohensolms-Lich , and Hermann Otto Solms (* 1940), politician (FDP) and Vice President of the German Bundestag from 1998 to 2013 .

Philipp Reinhard married Countess Marie Fouché d'Otrante on October 3, 1970 in Stockholm (born February 12, 1948); The marriage resulted in four children, including his successor as head of the Solms-Hohensolms-Lich family , Carl Christian (* 1975), married to Christina Countess Douglas (* 1973), who have three children, including a son, Louis (* 2008) - see also: Stammliste des Haus Solms .

Life

At the age of only 16, Philipp Reinhard zu Solms-Hohensolms-Lich succeeded his grandfather Reinhard Ludwig zu Solms-Hohensolms-Lich as head of the family in 1951 after his death . In the circles of the former nobility he was thus the 8th Prince of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich, Count of Tecklenburg , Crichingen and Lingen . He attended the humanistic Landgraf-Ludwigs-Gymnasium in Giessen. He then studied economics at the University of Geneva and the Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg and - after an agricultural apprenticeship - agriculture (graduate farmer ) at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen .

The passionate cattle farmer with forestry and agricultural goods and a. in Lich, in Central Hesse , in Niederlausitz ( Schmogrow-Fehrow ) was from 1988 to 2002 chairman of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Rinderzüchter eV (ADR), from 1989 to 1993 vice-president, from 1993 to 2001 president of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Tierzüchter e. V. (ADT), from 1996 to 2000 President of the European Association for Animal Production (EVT), from 1993 to 2002 President of the German Society for Breeding Science (DGfZ) and from 1997 to 2000 one of the two Vice Presidents of the German Agricultural Society (DLG) , also for many years city councilor of the city of Lich.

The original headquarters of the widely ramified House of Solms, Hohensolms Castle in Hohensolms , was sold in the 1950s by Philipp Reinhard to the Evangelical Church of Hesse and Nassau (EKHN) , which expanded it into a youth castle; it has served as a meeting place for the Christian German youth since 1924 . The headquarters of the Solms-Hohensolms-Lich line has been Lich Castle since 1765 .

Honors

swell

  • Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility, CA Starke 1997, page 435
  • Paperback of Public Life Germany, 201, page 595
  • The Federal Republic of Germany State Manual: Associations, Carl Heymanns Verlag 2004, page 1160
  • Announcements from the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Rinderzüchter e. V. (ADR) of August 10, 2015

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://mittelhessen-gedenken.de/trauerbeispiel/philippreinhard-fuerstzusolms-hohensolms-lich/angebote
  2. ↑ Lich mourns Prince Philipp , In: Giessener Allgemeine , August 1, 2015.
  3. ↑ The breakthrough of the prince , In: Der Spiegel , No. 21/1993, May 24, 1993.
  4. ↑ Former DLG Vice President Philipp Fürst Solms (Lich) has died ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) , DLG , 8/2015
  5. ↑ A guide in the landscape. Hohensolms Castle has been a church meeting place for 90 years , In: Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung , September 28, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Solms-Hohensolms-Lich, Philipp Reinhard zu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Solms-Hohensolms-Lich, Philipp Reinhard Fürst zu (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Lich
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 2015
Place of death Lich