She didn’t want the job to begin with and had a series of small PR mishaps.

There was general dissatisfaction with her work and multiple other things she was criticized for.

Article mentions some questions about qualifications and other issues.

Death by a small cuts maybe?

Article is very short.

That was the last straw.

Her saying she met interesting people wasn't received well. It was several small scandals though.

"In a widely criticized New Year's Eve address she stated that the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine has led to "a lot of special experiences" and a chance for "many encounters with great and interesting people"." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Lambrecht#Federal_Mi...)

There is a huge list of stuff she did and didn't. Honestly, I'm not really concerned about our defense minister, as I'm already mad that we spend 100bn EUR on military equipment instead of education and more opportunities for poorer folks. If we'd help Ukraine with that money, it would be a different thing, but right now we are only spending and not planning to do anything with it. Most of the money will probably land in the pockets of McKinsey and executives anyway, like it happened with von der Leyen.

Anyway, maybe it's useful for some context:

- She requested a helicopter of the Luftwaffe as "holder of command and command authority" (IBUK booking) for a troop visit. This got her high on the priority list (higher than if she would've requested the helicopter as defense minister). But, unlike a booking as defense minister, an IBUK booking does not allow her to use the booking as a private escort. She took her son with her, which is against the rules. While she was flying, she ordered her bodyguards to drive with two empty cars from Berlin to Ladelund, where the helicopter landed (so, she could've driven with the bodyguards, instead of taking this expensive flight).

Coincidentally, a day after the troop visit, she went by car and bodyguards to the nearby island of Sylt for a vacation with her son. [1]

- She ordered F-35 jets, but those do not fit into the existing hangars. She didn't know this beforehand, and now the parliament had to spend an additional 700M EUR for new hangars because of her mistake. [2]

- Shortly after taking office in December 2021, Lambrecht canceled a Christmas trip to a Bundeswehr mission in Mali, which had previously been a must for ministers. [3]

- When Russia invaded Ukraine she only delivered 5.000 Helmets. Klitschko was very disappointed. [4]

I think the following two points are not relevant, but they are raised pretty often, therefore for completeness:

- She did not know the name of the Air Force Chief of Staff Ingo Gerhartz when she announced that she'd buy F-35 jets. [5]

- She does not know the duty ranks across the Bundeswehr. [6]

[1] https://www.businessinsider.de/politik/deutschland/nach-nied...

[2] https://www.spiegel.de/politik/bundeswehr-bohrende-fragen-zu...

[3] https://www.greenpeace-magazin.de/ticker/lambrecht-muss-reis...

[4] https://www.merkur.de/politik/ukraine-klitschko-konflikt-deu...

[5] Interestingly the video has been taken down everywhere (at least I cannot find it). There are some articles which still mention it, like https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/christine-lambrec...

[6] https://rp-online.de/politik/christine-lambrecht-ministerin-...

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