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{{Infobox officeholder
| name=Ewald Max Hoyer
| nationality=[[Germany|German]]-[[United States|American]]
| office=Founding [[Mayor]] of [[Bossier City]], [[Louisiana]], [[United States|USA]]
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]] 
| term_start=1907
| term_end=1910
| preceded=First mayor as a village
| succeeded=[[M. B. Woodward]]
| birth_place=Marine, Madison County, [[Illinois]]
| birth_date=1863
| death_date=August 11, 1957 (aged c. 94)
| death_place=[[Shreveport]], Louisiana
| resting_place=Sunset Memorial Park and Mausoleum at Affton, St. Louis County, Missouri
| residence=Shreveport, Louisiana
| occupation=[[Dairy]]man
[[Real estate]] agent
| spouse=Minnie Boesenberg Hoyer 
| children=
| parents=Ewald A. and Justina Hartman Hoyer}}

'''Ewald Max Hoyer''' (c. 1863 &ndash; August 11, 1957) was a [[dairy]]man<ref name=hhoyer/> and [[real estate]] [[business]]man who served from 1907 to 1910 as the founding [[mayor]] of [[Bossier City]], [[Louisiana]]. He was appointed to the post by [[Governor]] Newton Blanchard.<ref name=bchist>{{cite web|url=http://www.bossiercity.org/Bossier-City-History/|title=Bossier City History|author=Louise Stinson|date=1976|accessdate=January 2, 2015}}</ref> Though he served in Bossier City, Hoyer continued to live in [[Shreveport]] in Caddo Parish, the larger companion city separated from Bossier City by the Red River.

Hoyer was one of four sons and three daughters born in Marine in Madison County in southern [[Illinois]], to Ewald A. Hoyer (1831-1915) and the former Justina Hartman (1837-1916), both [[Germany|German]] natives. The parents died three days apart; each had expressed a wish not to outlive the other. They are interred in a single grave at New Douglas Cemetery in New Douglas in Madison County, Illinois.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107678715|title=Ewald A. Hoyer|publisher=''Edwardsville Intelligencer''|location=Edwardsville, Illinois|date=January 4, 1916|accessdate=February 12, 2015}}</ref>

For many years, Hoyer resided at a historic home at 902 Robinson Place in the Highland neighborhood of Shreveport. The Bliss-Hoyer House, was constructed by the planter Abel Bliss but sold to Hoyer. In his later years, Hoyer was a partner with a brother, Hugo Hoyer (1874-1961),<ref name=hhoyer>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Hoyer&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScnty=1117&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=90170699&df=all&|title=Hugo Hoyer|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=March 18, 1961|page=1A and 4A|accessdate=February 12, 2015}}</ref> in the establishment of Centuries Memorial Park in south Shreveport.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://restorehighland.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/tour1.pdf|title=902 Robinson Place|publisher=restorehighland.org|accessdate=February 12, 2015}}</ref> A grocer, Hugo Hoyer came to Shreveport in 1896 from [[St. Louis]], [[Missouri]]. He was a founder the last surviving director of the Shreveport [[Chamber of Commerce]]. He served after 1900 on the Shreveport City Council and helped to plan the old city hall, long since demolished.<ref name=hhoyer/>

Hoyer was succeeded as mayor in 1910 by M. B. Woodward, who was elected and served thereafter for nine years.<ref name=bchist/>