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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0748.00018.] The basic notion is that of a reflection group \((\Gamma,D)\), i.e. a group \(\Gamma\) together with a generating set \(D\) of involutions (i.e. \(d^ 2=1\neq d)\) such that all \(a,b,x,y,z\in D\) satisfy: If \(a\neq b\) and \(abx\) and \(aby\) and \(abz\) are involutions then \(xyz\in D\). Hence a ``reflection group'' is precisely what \textit{R. Lingenberg} in his book ``Metric planes and metric vector spaces'' (Wiley, 1979; Zbl 0419.51001) calls an \(S\)- group. A pencil is a set of the form \(S(ab):=\{x\in D\mid abx\) is an involution\} where \(a,b\in D\) and \(ab\neq 1\). Two more axioms use the concept of (in Lingenberg's notation) a ``completely connected'' pencil \(U\) (i.e. \(U\cap W\neq\emptyset\) for all pencils \(W)\): At least one completely connected pencil exists, and each \(d\in D\) admits no one or at least three completely connected pencils containing \(d\). The author compiles some basic definitions (plane and incidence space assigned to a reflection group) and facts, e.g. that every element of \(\Gamma\) is a product of at most three elements of \(D\) (covered by Lingenberg 5.2) and that the center of \(\Gamma\) is \(\{1\}\) or \(\{1,d\}\) for some \(d\in D\) (Lingenberg 5.3). The main subject of the article are finite reflection groups. A precise classification is given. Though the author does not refer to previous work on \(S\)-groups we observe that the subject has been extensively studied: In the Lingenberg book, Chapter 8; further e.g. \textit{U. Ott} [J. Geom. 1, 41-68 (1971; Zbl 0227.50008)] and two further articles by the same author; and \textit{A. Häussler}, Charakterisierung einer Klasse verallgemeinerter hyperbolisch-metrischer Bewegungsgruppen, Thesis, Karlsruhe (1975).