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Instead of using the Plemelj formulas, here (in Section 2) a reflection principle under weak conditions is established for the investigation of boundary value problems, in view of the resulting advantage that the usual assumptions of Hölder continuity of the boundary data and of smoothness of the boundary can be weakened. In Section 3, this reflection principle is utilized in order to obtain a generalization of the Poisson formula if, for the given domain, there exists a suitable reflection function (with only isolated singularities in the domain). (The discussion of the conditions for the existence of such a reflection function leads to a circle (or straight line) as only admissible boundary in the case of a simply-connected domain.) How to solve the Dirichlet problem in the case of multiply-connected (especially doubly-connected) domains with the help of the above principle, is sketched in Section 4. Further applications of the reflection principle are considered in the main part, Section 5. First, an orthogonal (with respect to the scalar product of \(L_2(\Omega)\)) decomposition of \(C^\infty(\Omega)\cap L_2(\Omega)\) is derived where \(\Omega\) is a bounded complex domain with a rectifiable boundary and a reflection function. The inhomogeneous Dirichlet problem for the Poisson equation, \[ \textstyle{{1\over 4}} \Delta u= f,\quad u|_{\partial\Omega}= g \] with \(f\in C^\infty(\Omega)\cap L_2(\Omega)\), \(g\in C^\infty(\Omega)\cap C(\overline\Omega)\), \[ \partial g/\partial\overline z\in C^\infty(\Omega)\cap L_2(\Omega), \] is proved to possess a unique solution in \(C^\infty(\Omega)\cap L_2(\Omega)\), and a representation for the solution is given. Finally, some results on Bergman kernels are restated. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0930.00044].