Abstract: A lamp holder for fluorescent lamps, which incorporates a latching arrangement, especially for utilization in the passenger cabin of airplanes. The lamp holder includes two adjacently located inserting slots for the lateral or end-projecting contact pins of the fluorescent lamp, into which inserting slots there project retaining pins, which are displaceable opposite a spring force, for effecting the latching of the contact pins; wherein an unlatching knob or pushbutton is adapted to act on the retaining pins, and wherein there is present a guiding channel extending in parallel with the inserting slots for the guidance of the fluoescent lamp. In the area of the guiding channel, there may also be arranged resilient elements extending in parallel with the inserting slots for the retention of the fluorescent lamp in its ejected position.