Klaus Müller is the “gas man”. The President of the Federal Network Agency has it in his hands to declare a gas emergency. His word could instantly raise consumer prices, and he would go from savior to bogeyman.
Do you know Jochen Hohmann? Even. For ten years, the man managed the business of the Federal Network Agency, that well-behaved upper Bonn federal agency whose only extravagance is to live in an 18-storey building steeped in history in the former government district. The foremost task of this supreme regulatory authority is to maintain and promote competition in the so-called network markets for electricity, telecommunications, post, railways and, of course, gas.