Theodor Rehbock
Theodor Rehbock (born April 12, 1864 in Amsterdam ; † August 17, 1950 in Baden-Baden ) was a German hydraulic engineer and professor at the Technical University of Karlsruhe .
family
His parents were the overseas merchant Alexander Rehbock (1829–1914), who had moved from Frankfurt am Main to Amsterdam for professional reasons, and his wife Emma Katharina Rehbock nee. Schöffer (1842–1930), a daughter of the businessman Conrad Heinrich Schöffer . Theodor Rehbock married Margarete Küster in 1901. The couple had four sons and one daughter.
Life
Rehbock studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Munich and at the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg , while in Berlin he became a member of the Academic Association Motiv .
In 1892, after passing the first state examination , he went to Bremen as a government building supervisor ( trainee lawyer in the public building administration) , where he already emerged with the constructive design for the new construction of the Great Weser Bridge . In 1894 he passed the second state examination and then worked as a government master builder ( assessor in the public building administration) building the Reichstag building in Berlin. He soon went into business there as a consulting engineer . Rehbock carried out studies on the water supply and the technical use of water in many countries.
In 1899 he was appointed professor for hydraulic engineering at the Technical University of Karlsruhe. He built the river engineering laboratory there and managed it until 1934. Most of the major river engineering projects in Germany and many other hydraulic engineering projects around the world were investigated here, for example the dike in the Netherlands . The concept for expanding the Murg in Baden with hydropower plants also goes back to him . The laboratory was later named after him as "Theodor Rehbock Laboratory". A street in Karlsruhe is also named after him.
literature
- Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): German Colonial Lexicon . Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, Volume 3, p. 145. ( Article online on the website of the University of Frankfurt)
- Bernd Ottnad (Ed.): Badische Biographien , new series. Volume 4, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-17-010731-3 , p. 224.
- Karl-Heinz Hofmann: Roebuck, Theodor. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 278 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Institute for Water and Water Development, Department of Water Management and Cultural Engineering, with Theodor Rehbock Hydraulic Engineering Laboratory at KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
- Literature by and about Theodor Rehbock in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Black Ring. Membership directory. Darmstadt 1930, p. 37.
- ^ Theodor Rehbock: Hydraulic model tests to clarify the runoff phenomena at the end of the Zuiderzee . Rijksuitgeverij Dienst van de Nederlandsche Staatscourant, 's-Gravenhage 1931.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Roebuck, Theodor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German hydraulic engineer and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 12, 1864 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Amsterdam |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th August 1950 |
| Place of death | Baden-Baden |