From 2010 to 2013 Wanka served as State Minister of Science and Culture of the state of Lower Saxony, in the Cabinet McAllister; she became the first East German to become a minister in a state government in the former West Germany.Quentin Peel (30 September 2010), Germany: An unequal union Financial Times. She was also a CDU delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2010.
