Source: Heine family tree, from Heine Institute of Dusseldorf
Family papers indicate that Hymann was born in Bückeburg, Germany. Later moved to Altona where he met his wife. Was a clothing merchant in Altona, Hanover, and Dusseldorf.
Bückeburg was in the electorate of Hamburg; it is ten miles from Minden, and is now found in the North Rhine-Westphalia area.
Altona is on the high bank of the Elbe, northwest of Hamburg, a port city connected to the North Sea.