From 1985 to 1990, she was medical director at the District Office for lung diseases and tuberculosis in East Berlin.

In 1990, Bergmann-Pohl was made Patron of the General Disabled Persons in Germany (ABID eV).

In that role, she presided over the People's Chamber formally petitioning to join the Federal Republic of Germany on 23 August, as well as the overwhelming approval of the unification treaty on 12 September.

[2] After the 1990 all-German election, she was appointed Parliamentary Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Health on 18 January 1991.

Following her party's defeat in the 1998 election, she departed from the government on 27 October 1998 but remained in the Bundestag until 2002.