From 24 November 2007 until 18 June 2010 she was chairperson of the Young Socialists in the SPD (also called "Jusos"), a division of the German Social Democratic Party.

Drohsel studied law, and including an Eramus exchange year at La Sapienza University, in Rome.

As a result of public pressure, a few days after being elected Jusos party chairperson, she gave up her membership to Rote Hilfe e.V.

(a revival of the historical International Red Aid), which is considered to be a left-wing extremist organization by the German Verfassungsschutz.

[2] Drohsel earned a doctorate under Ulrich Battis [de] in 2010, with her dissertation "Vereinbarkeit gesetzlicher Öffnungsklauseln mit der Koalitionsfreiheit aus Art.