caption death_date death_place birth_place image_size nationality field work_institutions birth_date known_for image article_title name alma_mater
theodor a hydraulics model to the client . on the left rehbock the chief engineer -lrb- german : oberingenieur -rrb- of the -lrb- hydraulics laboratory at the university of karlsruhe ; on the center right the client of the research conducted in the hydraulics -rrb- model experiments . during the presentation of 1950 8 17 1864 4 12 y baden-baden amsterdam 208px german fluid dynamics university of karlsruhe 1864 4 12 y rehbock weir rehbock dentated sill theodor rehbock.jpg theodor rehbock
 theodor rehbock • technical university munich • berlin institute of technology
theodor rehbock

theodor christoph heinrich rehbock -lrb- 12 april 1864 , amsterdam -- 17 august 1950 , baden-baden -rrb- was a german hydraulics engineer , and professor at the university of karlsruhe .
theodor rehbock 's father was an overseas merchant .
rehbock studied at the technical university munich and berlin institute of technology during 1884 -- 90 , receiving his msc degree in 1892 .
rehbock performed studies on water supply and hydraulic engineering in many countries .
further , he built a hydroelectric power station in the murg river in baden .
in 1899 , rehbock became professor of hydraulics at the university of karlsruhe .
where he started a hydraulics laboratory , in 1901 , of which he was the director until 1934 .
the hydraulics aspects of most large projects in germany -- as well as in many other countries in the world -- were tested here .
for instance the `` afsluitdijk '' for the separation of the zuiderzee -lrb- dutch for south sea -rrb- from the wadden sea in the netherlands .
after his retirement , the laboratory has been named the '' `` theodor rehbock laboratory '' '' .
rehbock was rector -lrb- university president -rrb- of the university of karlsruhe three times : in 1907 -- 08 , 1917 -- 18 and 1925 -- 26 .
in 1935 , an initiative of theodor rehbock , wolmar fellenius and rudolf seifert lead to the establishment of the international association for hydro-environment engineering and research -lrb- iahr -rrb- .
in 1901 rehbock married margarete küster .
she gave birth to four sons and one daughter .
