Hermann zu Solms-Laubach, more precisely Hermann Maximilian Carl Ludwig Friedrich Graf zu Solms-Laubach (23. 12. 1842, Laubach, Grand Duchy of Hesse – 11. 24. 1915, Strasbourg) was a German botanist.
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Count Solms-Laubach studied in Giessen, Berlin, Fribourg and Geneva. In 1868 he obtained habilitation at the University of Halle-Wittenberg. In 1872 he became associate professor at the Ubiversity of Strasbourg; in 1879 he was appointed professor and director of the botanical garden in Göttingen, and in 1888 in Strasbourg.
He spent the years 1883 - 1884 traveling in Java.
He was a foreign member of the Linnean Society, the Royal Society, the Geographic Society; and recipient of the Gold Medal of the Linnean Society in 1911.
His work extended to most branches of botany, especially in systematics and paleontology. In addition to editing the Botanische Zeitung he contributed monographs, among others, on Rafflesiaceae, Caricaceae, Pandanaceae, Hydnoraceae, Chloranthaceae, Lennoaceae and Pontederiaceae to the works of Martius, de Candolle, Engler and Prantl.
The genera Solmsia Baill. (Thymelaeaceae) and Solms-Laubachia Muschl.(Brassicaceae) were named in his honor.