Career
Shortly after her election, she gained widespread attention when it was claimed by a television program that she had called for the return of the Stasi and justified the construction of the Berlin Wall, also voicing her support for Margot Honecker. The Left party distanced itself from her and on February 18, 2008 she was expelled from The Left Party parliamentary group. Wegner gained widespread attention after she made controversial statements during a television interview in February 2008 with the NDR. The DKP politician also declared that a reason for the construction of the Berlin Wall was to keep West Germans out of the German Democratic Republic, "both to prevent them from hurting the economy by buying goods cheaply and also to keep out forces one didn"t want there." Also, she stated her "unconditional support" for those who "spent their entire lives building up another kind of society" and that she supported Margot Honecker "idealistically and materially".
In her statement she declared that "lieutenant really is clear that I"m not out to restart the Stasi, to rebuild the Berlin Wall or to take away the homes of the citizens of Lower Saxony." Claiming that there were many cuts in the report and that "The goal of the campaign clearly is to hit DIE LINKE., and of course also me as a Communist."
The television program upheld its earlier claims that she was indeed making references to the Stasi and that during the interview she made repetitive claims stating that the Stasi was "legitimate for the German Democratic Republic".
On February 18, 2008 the DIE LINKE Lower Saxony parliamentary group issued a statement saying that she had been expelled from their parliamentary group and urged her to give up her seat in the assembly. The controversy led to calls from central figures in The Left Party to end any cooperation with the German Communist Party.
Both The Left Party and the DKP are under surveillance by the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz due to alleged leftwing extremist tendencies.