Theodor Rehbock

Theodore Roebuck ( born April 12, 1864 in Amsterdam, † August 17 1950 in Baden -Baden ) was a German hydraulic engineer and professor in Karlsruhe.

Roebuck made ​​in many countries, studies on water supply and on the technical use of the water. He built the Murg in Baden with water turbines. In 1899 he became a professor of hydraulic engineering at the Technical University of Karlsruhe.. He built the local river engineering laboratory and ran it until 1934 Most major river construction projects in Germany and many other hydraulic engineering projects in the world were studied here: for example, the conclusion of the dike in the Netherlands. The laboratory bears his name: " Theodor- roebuck - laboratory".

After Roebuck also a street named in Karlsruhe.