Reinhard, Count of Solms-Lich

Reinhard, Count of Solms-Lich (1491–1562), was a German commander and military engineer, born at Lich Castle. As a young man he fought in the 1534 siege of the Anabaptist regime at Münster.

He modernized the fortifications of Hanau and, between 1539 and 1542, built the bastions of the Bavarian fortress of Ingolstadt, where he moved his household out of an unsafe residence just before it collapsed. In Emperor Charles V's 1544 campaign against France he directed the bombardment and mining of Saint-Dizier. He became imperial field marshal in 1546 and later an imperial councillor, and died at Lich in 1562.