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 (Dutch for South Sea) from the Wadden Sea in the Netherlands.[2] After his retirement, the laboratory has been named the "Theodor Rehbock Laboratory".
Rehbock was rector (university president) of the University of Karlsruhe three times: in 1907–08, 1917–18 and 1925–26.[1]
In 1901 Rehbock married Margarete Küster. She gave birth to four sons and one daughter.[6]
Honours
Rehbock weir – a device to accurately measure the discharge in open channel flows.[7]
Rehbock dentated sill – for kinetic energy dissipation at the end of a stilling basin, into which the spillway of a large dam ends. This, in order to prevent or reduce scour.[8]
Theodor Rehbock Medal – of the Deutsche Vereinigung für Wasserwirtschaft, Abwasser und Abfall (DWA; German Association for Water, Wastewater and Waste), to honour members who made outstanding innovations within the fields covered by the association. This award has been established in 2007.[9]
^Theodor Rehbock (1931), Wasserbauliche Modellversuche zur Klärung der Abflusserscheinungen beim Abschluss der Zuiderzee (in German), 's-Gravenhage: Rijksuitgeverij Dienst van de Nederlandsche Staatscourant
^Hamm, Luc (1996), "History of coastal engineering in France", in Kraus, Nicholas C. (ed.), History and Heritage of Coastal Engineering: A Collection of Papers on the History of Coastal Engineering in Countries Hosting the International Coastal Engineering Conference 1950–1996, ASCE Publications, p. 149, ISBN9780784474143
^Bos, M.G.; Wijbenga, J.H.A. (1997), "Passage of sediment through flumes and over weirs", Irrigation and Drainage Systems, 11 (1): 29–39, doi:10.1023/A:1005752711183, S2CID108973257
^Hager, Willi H. (1992), Energy dissipators and hydraulic jump, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, p. 194, ISBN978-0-7923-1508-7
^Theodor-Rehbock-Medaille (in German), Deutsche Vereinigung für Wasserwirtschaft, Abwasser und Abfall, retrieved 2009-04-19
