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

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

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. His family belonged to the local upper class and Hoyer was elected as a member of the ''

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'' (board/council), where he defended the interests of the bourgeois opposition against the older families, in 1413. The politician was selected as

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(mayor) and head of the delegation to the

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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 on the one and Denmark on the other side.

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* Heinrich Reincke
Hein Hoyer
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, Vol. 9 (1972), p. 668. (German) {{DEFAULTSORT:Hoyer, Hein 1380s births 1447 deaths Mayors of Hamburg 15th-century mayors Mayors of places in the Holy Roman Empire