Joachim Christoph Heyn

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Joachim Christoph Heyn (born September 18, 1718 in Greifswald ; † after 1792 ) was a German administrative lawyer and mayor.

Joachim Christoph Heyn became a member of the magistrate in his hometown in 1743, promoted to second municipal councilor in 1751 and elected mayor in 1763. In 1774 Heyn was appointed royal district administrator .

He was married to Catharina Emerantia Spitt, daughter of the Greifswald businessman Heinrich Spitt. The couple had three children. The son Carl Gustav became a businessman in Saint Petersburg , the son Johann Christoph († 1800) became a portrait painter in Dresden and the daughter Sophia Dorothea († 1804) married the council secretary Carl Heinrich Linde.

On Heyn's 50th anniversary of the magistrate's office, the Greifswald merchants issued a medal made by the Berlin medalist and mint master Abraham Abramson .

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