Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser
Neisser was born in the Silesian town of Schweidnitz (now Świdnica, in Poland), the son of a well-known Jewish physician, Dr. Moritz Neisser. After he completed the elementary school in Münsterberg, Neisser enrolled in the St. Maria Magdalena School in Breslau (now Wrocław, in Poland). In this school, he was a contemporary of another great name in the history of medicine, Paul Ehrlich. He obtained the Abitur in 1872.
Albert Oustric
Albert Oustric was born on 2 September 1887 in Carcassonne, Aude.
His father ran a cafe in Carcassonne, then became manager of a wine and spirits store in Toulouse.
Albert Oustric became clerk to an advocate, then a sales representative of the distilled beverage firm Cusenier in the Aude.
When his father died in 1910 he succeeded him as manager of the Toulouse shop, while continuing as a Cusenier representative. 
During World War I he was mobilized as an accountant in a shell-making factory. 
He was released from the factory to exploit a legacy of his father, the rights to a waterfall in the Gripp valley of the Hautes-Pyrénées, by building a hydropower plant.
He raised the funds needed to float the "Force & lumière des Pyrénées" company for this purpose.
He also floated the "Electro-Métal" company to produce ferro-silicon in Haute-Garonne.