It seems like a couple of years ago, once you fucked up, you resigned out of respect to your office/job/position.
Looking at our current Minister of Transport 'Andi Scheuer', this does not seem to be the case any more. He is still in office after burning more than € 500M in the recent toll scandal [0].
[0]: https://www.dw.com/en/german-transport-minister-blasted-over...