Hein Hoyer (lat. ''Hinricus Hoyeri'') (c. 1380 in

Hamburg Hamburg (, ; nds, label=Hamburg German, Low Saxon, Hamborg ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (german: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg; nds, label=Low Saxon, Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg),. is the List of cities in Germany by popul ...

– 12 May 1447 in Hamburg) was a German statesman and

mayor of Hamburg The government of Hamburg is divided into executive, legislative and judicial branches. Hamburg is a city-state and municipality, and thus its governance deals with several details of both state and local community politics. It takes place in two ...

. His family belonged to the local upper class and Hoyer was elected as a member of the '' Rat'' (board/council), where he defended the interests of the bourgeois opposition against the older families, in 1413. The politician was selected as

burgomaster Burgomaster (alternatively spelled burgermeister, literally "master of the town, master of the borough, master of the fortress, master of the citizens") is the English form of various terms in or derived from Germanic languages for the chie ...

(mayor) and head of the delegation to the

Hanseatic League The Hanseatic League (; gml, Hanse, , ; german: label= Modern German, Deutsche Hanse) was a medieval commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and market towns in Central and Northern Europe. Growing from a few North German to ...

as well as to the

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four years later. Hoyer played a major role in the negotiations of the peace treaty of

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(1435), between the Hanseatic League and

Adolf VIII, Count of Holstein Adolphus XI of Schauenburg ( nds, Alef or Alv, german: Adolf von Schauenburg, da, Adolf 8. af Holsten-Rendsborg) (1401 – 4 December 1459), as Adolph I Duke of Schleswig ( da, Sønderjylland, formerly ), and as Adolph VIII Count of Holstein ...

on the one and Denmark on the other side.

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* Heinrich Reincke
Hein Hoyer
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Neue Deutsche Biographie ''Neue Deutsche Biographie'' (''NDB''; literally ''New German Biography'') is a biographical reference work. It is the successor to the ''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie'' (ADB, Universal German Biography). The 26 volumes published thus far cove ...

, Vol. 9 (1972), p. 668. (German) {{DEFAULTSORT:Hoyer, Hein 1380 births 1447 deaths Mayors of Hamburg