We have analysed the kinematics of a sample of 114 hot subdwarf stars . For 2/3 of the stars , new proper motions , spectroscopic and photometric data are presented . The vast majority of the stars show a kinematic behaviour that is similar to that of Thick Disk stars . Some stars have velocities rather fitting to solar , i.e . Thin Disk , kinematics . About \sim 15 objects have orbital velocities which differ considerably from those of Disk stars . These are members of the Galactic Halo . We investigated the velocity dispersions and calculated the orbits . Most stars feature orbits with disk character ( eccentricity of less than 0.5 ) , a few reach far above the Galactic plane and have very eccentric orbits ( eccentricity of more than 0.7 ) . The intermediate eccentricity range is poorly populated . This seems to indicate that the ( Thick ) Disk and the Halo are kinematically disjunct . Plotting a histogram of the orbit data points along z leads to the z -distance probability distribution of the star ; doing this for the whole sample leads to the z -distance probability distribution of the sample . The logarithmic histogram shows two slopes , each representing the scale height of a population . The disk component has a scale height of 0.9 ( \pm 0.1 ) kpc , which is consistent with earlier results and is similar to that of the Thick Disk . The other slope represents a component with a scale height \sim 7 kpc , a much flatter gradient than for the disk component . This shows that the vast majority of the sdBs are disk stars , but a Halo minority is present , too . The kinematic history and population membership of the sdB stars on the whole is different from that of the cooler HBA stars , which are predominantly or even exclusively Halo objects . This leads to the question , whether the Halo sdB stars are of similar origin as the HBA stars , or whether their kinematical behaviour possibly represents another origin , such as infalling stellar aggregates or inner disk events .