 The term "dissident", which some church leavers had used up until them, was associated with being "without belief" ("glaubenslos"), whilst most of them emphasised they still believed in God and thus required a different word.The Nazi Party ideologue Alfred Rosenberg was the first to leave his church in November 1933, but for the next three years he would be the only prominent Nazi leader to do so.In early 1936, SS leaders Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich terminated their membership of the Roman Catholic Church, followed by a number of "Gauleiter" including Martin Mutschmann (Saxony), Carl Röver (Weser-Ems) and Robert Heinrich Wagner (Baden).