The Federal Ministry of Transport is no longer approving funds for hydrogen funding for the time being. A corresponding internal letter from State Secretary Stefan Schnorr is available to SPIEGEL.
The affair was triggered by reports that the head of the hydrogen department, Klaus Bonhoff, had funded hydrogen projects with a sum of around 1.5 million euros in 2021. The decisive factor could have been a personal closeness: Bonhoff is friends with Werner Diwald from the German Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association.