Career
In the cabinets of minister-presidents Roland Koch and Volker Bouffier, Beer served as State Secretary for European Affairs at the Hessian State Ministry of Justice between 2009 and 2012. Between 2012 and 2014 she was State Minister of Education and Cultural Affairs in Hesse. Beer was a Freie Demokratische Partei (Free Democratic Party) delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2004, 2009, 2010 and 2012.
In late 2013, incoming Freie Demokratische Partei (Free Democratic Party) chairman Christian Lindner nominated Beer for the office of Secretary General.
On 7 December 2013 she got elected (with 84,3% of all votes. At the political convention of the Freie Demokratische Partei (Free Democratic Party) on 15 May 2015 she got reelected with 88,4% of all votes.
World Vision Deutschland, Member.