At the inauguration of Holger Hanselka as president, politicians clearly formulated what urgently needs to change in the research organization headquartered in Munich: There should be less fuss, but more innovation – and equality.
Would Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787 – 1826) have dreamed that his invention – a telescope – would one day have to be used as a baton? But the symbolism worked. On Thursday evening, at the end of a 90-minute ceremony, Holger Hanselka looked in a good mood through the historic device alongside Bavaria’s Economics Minister Hubert Aiwanger (Free Voters) and Federal Research Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger (FDP) and was able to see the cheerfully waving Bavarian Economics Minister Markus Blume (CSU) through it. regard.