Hermann Otto Solms

Hermann Otto Prinz zu Solms- Lich - Hohensolms (* November 24, 1940 in Lich ) is a German politician of the FDP. He was from 1991 to 1998 chairman of the FDP parliamentary group and from 1998 to 2013 Vice- President of the German Bundestag. In public, he uses the name Hermann Otto Solms, under which he is also known.

Career

Education and work

Hermann Otto Solms attended from 1950 to 1960 the Landerziehungsheim Stein an der Traun. After graduation in 1960 at the Humanistic Gymnasium Pasing Solms made ​​initially to 1961 his military service with the Air Force Air Defence Battalion 45 in Lindau and graduated in 1962 as a bank clerk at BHF- Bank in Frankfurt, where he graduated in 1964 with the commercial assistant exam. He then began a degree in economics and agriculture at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and the Justus -Liebig- University of Giessen, which he finished in 1969 as a graduate economist.

From 1969 to 1970 he was a research assistant for Agricultural Economics at Kansas State University. From 1970 to 1973 he was a research associate at the Institute of Farm Management at the Justus -Liebig- University of Giessen. From 1973 to 1976 he was the personal assistant of the former Bundestag Vice President Liselotte Funcke. In 1975 he was in the Department 20 (food Economic and Financial Sciences ) of the University of Giessen with the dissertation doctorate The company match as a training method in agriculture for Dr. agr.

Since 1976, Solms is a self-employed entrepreneur. From 1976 to 1982 he was Managing Director of Data Graph GmbH Computer systems in Lich near Giessen.

Party race

Since 1971, Solms is a member of the FDP, the Federal Treasurer, he was from 1987 to 1999 and from 2004 to 2011.

1997 Solms had indeed requested the quarterly payments of state funding of political parties in his capacity as Treasurer of the FDP, but forget the fixing of the total. The former parliamentary speaker Rita Süssmuth (CDU ) was the amount, although still pay off, but the Cologne Administrative Court denied the legality of the payment - it was about 12.4 million DM, the Higher Administrative Court of Münster reduced later repayment sum to 300,000 DM and the Federal Administrative Court ruled in May 2000, the application had been made ​​correctly and on time and to a reimbursement therefore not necessary.

After the death of his successor Günter Rexrodt Solms was appointed as acting in summer 2004 again as treasurer and elected at the national convention in Cologne on 5 May 2005 with 90.6 % of votes.

On December 7, 2013 he was elected to the national party in Berlin with 88.6 % of votes again to the Federal Treasurer.

Deputies activity

1980 - 2013 Solms was a member of the German Bundestag. Here he was from 1985 to 1991, Deputy Chairman and 15 January 1991 to 26 October In 1998, chairman of the FDP parliamentary group.

After the 1998 election he was elected to the office of Vice- President of the German Bundestag on 26 October 1998, which he held until October 2013. Hermann Otto Solms drew always a over the national list Hesse in the German Bundestag.

On 12 November 2009 Hermann Otto Solms was elected to the FDP parliamentary group chairman of the Working Group II to the policy areas: budget, finance, business and technology, tourism, food, agriculture and consumer protection.

On December 8, 2012 Solms was defeated in a battle candidacy for the top spot of the Hessian List Heinrich Kolb. Then renounced Solms, to apply for underlying list places. After the parliamentary election in 2013 Solms difference thus out of the Bundestag.

Family

Solms father Hermann Otto Wilhelm Ludwig Prince of Solms- Hohensolms - Lich (1902-1940), a doctorate in agricultural and forestry and a reserve officer (lieutenant in the Air Force dR ), fell in the Second World War. His mother Gertrude, Baroness and mistress of Werther - Beichlingen (1913-1987) later married the writer Hans Joachim Sell. Solms has four older siblings. His brother Philipp Reinhard Prince of Solms- Hohensolms - Lich, Count of Tecklenburg, Crichingen and Lingen (* 1934) is head of the House of Solms- Lich - Hohensolms. His sister Dorothea Countess Razumovsky (1935-2014) was a journalist and a former journalist. His brother Wilhelm Prinz zu Solms- Lich - Hohensolms (* 1937) is German scholar and former professor of communication science and media didactics at the University of Marburg. His sister Eleanor from the castle ( b. 1938 ) was named after her great-aunt Eleonore zu Solms - Lich - Hohensolms.

Personal

Hermann Otto Solms is Protestant. He is married since 1989 to his second wife Christiane Meyer to Eissen (* 1955) and has three daughters.

Honors

Works (selection)

• New tax models in the discussion, in: Joachim Merz (ed. ): Free Professions - income and taxes. (FB € St); Contributions from science, practice and policy, Nomos, Baden -Baden 2008, ISBN 978-3-8329-3210-7, pp. 191-205.
• (Ed.): The new income tax. Low, simple and fair; Berliner draft FDP Liberal -Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-920590 -04- X.
• Thomas Dehler - A guarantor of freedom, in: Museum of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany (ed.): Thomas Dehler and his policies, Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-87584-721-0, pp. 11-16.
• The company match as a training method in agriculture, German, Frankfurt am Main [u a ], 1975, ISBN 3-88123-000-9. (Dissertation)