Besides that point, what i dont know anything about:
she was also shit minister during her time in german politics.
She was part of Merkels CDU which spent their decades in the government slowly fucking up most things they touched either through bovine inaction, or grossly misrepresenting our best interests for lobby money and corruption.
VDL herself was seen as one of the worst ministers of defense, grossly mismanaging funds, abusing her station and kicking off a corruption scandal all by herself.
Same thing for other positions she's held.
Don't form your opinion on a politician by a single action, or even worse, purely by political allegiance.
I haven't done that, but when looking something up from a long text on paper, I get the same feeling I do when I hit ctrl+f. Like theres no keyboard obviously, but i feel ctrl+f