Overview
- In a Wednesday interview with Welt TV, Kai Wegner acknowledged he played tennis from 13:00 to 14:00 on the first day of the outage.
- Wegner said he remained reachable with his phone on loud during the match and returned to work immediately afterward.
- He said he spent the morning coordinating by phone with crisis teams, Stromnetz Berlin, the Chancellery and the federal interior minister.
- Opposition leaders from the FDP and AfD called for his resignation, and critics from the Left, Greens and SPD accused him of failing the standard of visible crisis leadership.
- The blackout, triggered by an arson attack on a cable bridge and claimed by a left‑wing extremist group, initially cut electricity to about 45,000 households before full restoration on the fifth day.