T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History Collection

ABSTRACT

INTERVIEWEE NAME: Franziska Heberle

COLLECTION: 4700. 0146

IDENTIFICATION: [1900 - 1997] Wife of LSU sociology professor Dr. Rudolf Heberle

INTERVIEWER: Nina Pugh

PROJECT: LSU history

DATE(S): 15 July 1992

FOCUS DATES: 1938 - 1963

ABSTRACT: family background; born and raised in Germany; childhood education; meets Rudolf Heberle at University of Kiel; Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany; Rudolf Heberle's position at the University of Kiel terminated while he was visiting the United States; Heberle secures a Rockefeller Foundation grant; gets a position at LSU in 1938; reflections on the academic achievements of LSU faculty during the 1930s and 1940s; Heberle's success in writing and publishing; builds his own home in Baton Rouge; Mrs. Heberle earns Master's degree in social work at LSU; Mrs. Heberle works for the State of Louisiana until 1962; early publications of Dr. Heberle; scholarly interest in population movements in the South; publishes on social movements and political sociology; serves as president of Southern Sociological Association and vice-president of American Sociological Association; active in university politics; Heberle liked by students; honored by Southern Sociological Association in 1991; teaches seminars at his home; discriminated against during World War II because he was German; FBI searches home in 1941; decides not to return to Germany in 1950s; Dr. and Mrs. Heberle become U.S. citizens on D-Day; Hubert Humphrey influenced by Heberle; Mrs. Heberle writes Christmas letter from 1946 to 1986.

TAPE: 208

TOTAL PLAYING TIME: 1 hour

PAGES TRANSCRIPT: 64

RESTRICTIONS: None