Headline: DEATHS 
                      Publication Date: April 22, 1991
                      Source: The Baton Rouge State Times 
                      Page: 10-A 
                      Subjects:  
                      Region: Louisiana 
                      Obituary: HEBERLE, RUDOLF
                      Died 3:40 p.m. Saturday, April 20, 1991, at Baton Rouge General Medical Center. He was 94, a
 native of Luebeck, Germany, and resident of Baton Rouge. He was a retired Boyd Professor Emeritus of sociology at LSU. Memorial services at Unitarian Church of Baton Rouge at 4 p.m.  Saturday, conducted by the Rev. Steve J. Crump. Survived by wife, Franziska Toennies Heberle,  Baton Rouge; a daughter, Antje E. Kolodziej, Champaign and Urbana, Ill.; two sons, Juergen W. Heberle, Buffalo, N.Y., and Klaus H. Heberle, Louisville, Ky.; 10 grandchildren; and a  great-grandchild. He received honorary degrees from University of Kiel and University of Hamburg in Germany. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Unitarian Church of  Baton Rouge, 8470 Goodwood Blvd., 70806. 
                      
                     Headline: DEATHS 
                      Publication Date: April 23, 1991
                      Source: The Baton Rouge State Times 
                      Page: 10-A 
                      Subjects:  
                      Region: Louisiana 
                      Obituary: HEBERLE, RUDOLF
                      Died 3:40 p.m. Saturday, April 20, 1991, at Baton Rouge General Medical Center. He was 94, a native of Luebeck, Germany, and resident of Baton Rouge. He was a retired professor emeritus of  sociology at LSU. Memorial services at Unitarian Church of Baton Rouge at 4 p.m. Saturday, April  27, conducted by the Rev. Steve J. Crump. Survived by wife, Franziska Toennies Heberle, Baton  Rouge; a daughter, Antje E. Kolodziej, Champaign-Urbana, Ill.; two sons, Juergen W. Heberle, Buffalo, N.Y., and Klaus H. Heberle, Louisville, Ky.; 10 grandchildren; and a great-grandchild. He was a member of Unitarian Church of Baton Rouge and received honorary degrees from University of Kiel and University of Hamburg in Germany. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made  to Unitarian Church of Baton Rouge, 8470 Goodwood Blvd., 70806.

Professor Heberle 	
	
Memorial services will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday at Unitarian Church of Baton Rouge for Dr. Rudolf Heberle, a retired Boyd Professor Emeritus of Sociology at LSU who died Saturday. 
Heberle, 94, was a native of Luebeck, Germany. He came to the United States and joined the LSU faculty in 1938 when he was forced to give up his position at the University of Kiel for political reasons. 
Heberle was a Fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1926 to 1929. He was named Boyd professor at LSU in 1955. 
Heberle's book, "From Democracy to Nazism," published by LSU Press in 1945, was an analysis of the breakdown of the Weimar Republic that paved the way for Hitler's regime. He said no publisher would take the book at the time it was written for fear of the consequences. He said he left Germany because "the Nazis were not favorable to sociologists nor to those who openly criticized their form of government." 
Among his other books are "The Labor Force in Louisiana," "New Americans -- Displaced Persons in Louisiana and Mississippi" and "Social Movements, an Introduction to Political Sociology." He also wrote articles for German encyclopedias and sociological journals. 
Heberle served as vice-president of the American Sociological Association in 1966-67. He earlier had served on the organization's council. 
He was honored by the Southern Sociology Society for distinguished representation of sociology earlier this month.