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Meerson Itzhak (1878)

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SurnameMeerson
NameItzhak
Birth year1878
Birth month10
Birth day12
Birth placeDaurzev
SexM

Meerson (Meersohn) Itzhak Yakov (12 October 1878, Daurzev, Courland) — public figure.

From 1898 to 1905 Itzhak Meerson studied at the Riga Polytechnic Institute. Until 1907 he continued his education at the Darmstadt Higher Technical School, after which he returned to the Riga Polytechnic Institute. In 1902 he was a co-founder of the Vetulia cooperative and became one of its philistines (senior members).

In 1923 he founded the Philistines’ Society affiliated with the cooperative and served as its chairman. In 1924, in Kaunas, he established the first Batariya cooperative and was a member of the board of Ahdut. From 1925 he was associated with the syndicate of the Trade and Industrial Union and acted as an organiser of the society’s branches in the provinces.

Itzhak Meerson was a member of the Commission on State Entrepreneurship and belonged to the Philistines’ Societies of the University of Latvia and the Riga Polytechnic Institute.