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.

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.

[3] 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.

[7] 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)[8] and the MEPs Against Cancer group (since 2019).