Bavarian State Minister for Education and Cultural Affairs, 1998–2005 Between 1998 and 2005, Hohlmeier served as Bavarian State Minister for Education and Cultural Affairs in the government of Minister-President
Edmund Stoiber. In 2005, she decided to step down from her office, amid accusations she allowed party votes to be falsified and got jobs for friends; she was replaced by
Siegfried Schneider. Already in 2004, Hohlmeier had resigned as head of the Munich branch of the Christian Social Union after she reportedly threatened critics within the party with unspecified revelations about their personal lives. Between 2006 and 2008, she served on the state parliament’s Committee on Budget and Finance. Hohlmeier was a CSU delegate to the
Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the
President of Germany in May 2004.
Member of the European Parliament, 2009–present Hohlmeier has been a
Member of the European Parliament since the
2009 European elections. She has since been serving on the
Committee on Budgets and the parliament’s delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China. In addition, she has been chairing the
Committee on Budgetary Control since 2019. On the Budget Committee, Hohlmeier serves as the European Parliament’s buildings
rapporteur. In 2011, she drafted the relevant reports for a Budget Committee decision on a controversial €38 million purchase of three buildings – one in
Strasbourg and two in
Brussels – so as to increase office space for MEPs and their staff in the light of the
2013 enlargement of the European Union. On the recommendation of Hohlmeier, the committee in 2013 approved signing a 12-year lease on a German-owned 40,000 square meters office building at Brussels’ Square de Meeûs. She has also served as the parliament’s rapporteur on the
budget of the European Union in 2015 (along with
Eider Gardiazabal Rubial) and in 2020. On the Committee on Budgetary Control, Hohlmeier notably authored the parliament's 2021 resolution condemning
Prime Minister Andrej Babiš of the
Czech Republic for conflicts of interest regarding EU subsidies paid to his
Agrofert agricultural conglomerate. In previous terms, Hohlmeier was a member of the Special Committee on Organized Crime, Corruption and Money Laundering (2012-2013) and the
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (2014-2019). On the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, she served as the EPP group's spokesperson from 2014 until 2019. In 2012, she also served as
rapporteur on the Directive on Attacks against Information Systems. In early 2014, the CSU chose Hohlmeier to be the party list’s number 3 for the
2014 European elections, following
Markus Ferber and
Angelika Niebler. In addition to her committee assignments, Hohlmeier has been a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Biodiversity, Countryside, Hunting and Recreational Fisheries (since 2014) and the
MEPs Against Cancer group (since 2019). ==Other activities==