Everything actually went better than expected for Stephan Knabe and Ingo Wagner. They had an idea, a plan and the necessary capital, 100 million euros. For Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the tax consultant and real estate manager from his constituency in Potsdam came at just the right time. With their down-to-earth manner, they embody the “Deutschlandtempo” that the chancellor loves to praise. At the opening of the first LNG terminal in Lubmin, which Knabe and Wagner rushed to open in January, he praised the project as an example of how quickly things can happen in Germany.
LNG project on Rügen raises questions for Olaf Scholz – politics
