She relied on this political capital to rise effortlessly and at an astonishing speed through the Christian Democratic Union party ranks. After a few years as minister for family affairs in Lower Saxony, she took the same job at the federal level.
憑這份政治資本，讓她毫不費功夫地青雲直上，竄升速度驚人，從新進黨員一路三級跳，出任下薩克森邦家庭局長沒幾年，就順利當上聯邦政府的家庭部長。