Successful completion of apprenticeship at the institute: Olaf Mantz-Hansen wins 2nd state prize in the field of precision mechanics.

Technical and scientific understanding are prerequisites for this profession — interests that have only developed further for Olaf Mantz-Hansen, partly as a result of the exchange with the scientists. Mr. Mantz-Hansen has manufactured individual parts from various metals on lathes and milling machines for the MPI-M, has assembled modules and also repaired them, and has operated various CNC machines. The workshop is a joint facility of the MPI-M and the University of Hamburg, which entails a wide variety of activities that Mr. Mantz-Hansen has greatly appreciated. Thus, he was not only able to work on the containers for the cloud observatory of the MPI-M in Barbados, which are being customized and repaired, but also to maintain the radar dome on the roof of the Geomatikum building, to build models for the wind tunnel, to help prepare ship trips for the Institute of Geophysics and to experience a variety of further exciting projects.