He served as the director of the Freies Deutsches Hochstift literary association from 1888 until his retirement in 1925.

[1] He attended the gymnasium in Hanover before leaving to study philology and history at Leipzig University, after which he moved to Bohemia.

On 21 January 1887, Heuer was elected secretary of the Academic Department for History in the Freies Deutsches Hochstift.

[4] Heuer expanded the Hochstift's collection and curated several exhibitions about Goethe (such as one in 1892 about The Sorrows of Young Werther).

[citation needed] Heuer remained as director until his retirement in 1925,[4][5] upon which he was succeeded by Ernst Beutler.