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After a brief introduction to Laguerre geometry and its relation to Euclidean geometry, the notion of \(L\)-isothermic surfaces is introduced in analogy to the notion of isothermic surfaces in Möbius geometry: here, the third fundamental form takes the role of the first fundamental form, as compared to Möbius geometry, cf. [\textit{E. Musso}, in: Proceedings of the workshop on recent topics in differential geometry (Santiago de Compostela, 1997), 219-235 (1998)]. The ``Bianchi potential'' (as an analog of the ``Calapso potential'') is introduced, and the corresponding differential equation for it is derived; deformability of surfaces in Laguerre geometry is discussed. The author studies several examples in detail: surfaces with planar curvature lines, and molding surfaces. As another example, Euclidean minimal surfaces are discussed that are at the same time \(L\)-minimal (as an analog to \(M\)-minimal or Willmore surfaces). In the reviewer's opinion, this is a nice paper -- in particular, in connection with the paper by E. Musso, cited above. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0893.00034].