The Development of the Office of Female Theologian in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia and the Evangelical Church of the Church Province of Saxony] Women have been able to study theology for around a hundred years. The Protestant regional churches were confronted with the existence of »theologically trained women«. How should female theologians work in the church? For around fifty years, there was a controversial debate about whether women theologians should be given the pastoral ministry. A agreement was usually not reached; instead, the theologically controversial issues were settled at a legal level. This process is traced for the first time for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Thuringia and the Evangelical Church of the Church Province of Saxony. The focus is on which groups within the two regional churches and the supra-regional church confederations were involved in this process.