She never completed gymnasium,[2] and joined the German nationalist youth movement by the 1920s,[3] becoming a Bund Deutscher Mädel leader.
[2] In 1928 she joined the NSDAP (Nazi Party), and in 1930 she was assigned the task of establishing a BDM in a Brandenburg district as an arm of the Hitler Youth.
After internal feuding, it was restored[3] and in 1933 she was given leave from her employment with the postal service to be able to devote herself to the greater establishment of the BDM.
[5] Her main initiative was to nourish a new way of living for the German youth, stating:[3] "Our volk need a generation of girls which is healthy in body and mind, sure and decisive, proudly and confidently going forward, one which assumes its place in everyday life with poise and discernment, one free of sentimental and rapturous emotions, and which, for precisely this reason, in sharply defined feminity, would be the comrade of a man, because she does not regard him as some sort of idol but rather as a companion!
In 1953 she stood unsuccessfully in the elections for the Landtag of Lower Saxony and the Bundestag as a candidate for the All-German Bloc/League of Expellees and Deprived of Rights.