[1] At the general election in September 2013, Schimke unexpectedly[1] gained the constituency of Dahme-Spreewald – Teltow-Fläming III – Oberspreewald-Lausitz I from the Social Democratic Party.

From 2013 to 2021, she served on the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs, where she was her parliamentary group's rapporteur on temporary employment and the situation in the East German states.

[3] Schimke was one of only five CDU parliamentarians who voted against the government's draft law on introducing a national minimum wage for the first time in Germany's history in July 2014.

[4] Ahead of the Christian Democrats' leadership election in 2018, Schimke publicly endorsed Friedrich Merz to succeed Angela Merkel as the party's chair.

[5] In 2020, Schimke opposed plans to introduce a mandatory quota aimed at achieving equal representation of women within the CDU's regional and national governing bodies by 2025.