Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich von Trebra

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich von Trebra (5 April 1740 – 16 July 1819) was a mining officer in Saxony.

He took an interest in geology and was a friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe who worked in Ilmenau.

He studied at Roßleben and law at the University of Jena before joining the newly created mining school in Freiberg after meeting Friedrich Anton von Heynitz in 1766.

He was in charge of mines in Saxony for which he got Dutch investors and introduced a number of innovations including improved conditions of the miners.

Trebra founded a society for mining science, the Societät der Bergbaukunde in 1786.