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 Mayer (soldier)
Albert Otto Walter Mayer was born on 24 April 1892, at Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt. His family had moved to the area of Mulhouse, Alsace, when he was a boy. He enlisted into the Imperial German Army in 1912. By 1914, he was a Leutnant in his local cavalry unit - the Jäger Regt-zu-Pferd Nr 5 part of the 29th Cavalry Brigade of the 29th Infantry Division, and was garrisoned in Mulhouse.