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Hugo Ferdinand Boss (8 July 1885 – 9 August 1948) was a German businessman and an early member of the Nazi Party. He was the founder of the fashion house Hugo Boss AG. He was an active member of the Nazi Party from 1931, and remained so until Nazi Germany's capitulation .
In 1931, two years before the Nazi Party took control of the German government, Hugo Boss started his fashion label in Metzingen, Germany. Even before then, Boss had numbered among Germany’s Nazi collaborators, producing early Nazi uniforms in a factory he’d bought in 1924.
The German fashion firm Hugo Boss has apologised for its maltreatment of forced workers during World War II when it supplied the Nazis with uniforms. It issued the apology to coincide with...
In 1945, Hugo Boss had a photograph in his apartment of him with Hitler, taken at the Berghof, Hitler’s Obersalzberg retreat. In 1946, during the German process of his denazification , Boss was labeled as an “activist, supporter and beneficiary” of National Socialism.
The German fashion firm Hugo Boss has apologised for its maltreatment of forced workers during World War II when it supplied the Nazis with uniforms. It issued the apology to coincide with...
Although Hugo Boss claimed, in a 1934/1935 advertisement, that he had been a creator of Nazi uniforms since 1924, he became an official supplier in 1928–1929.
Hugo Boss AG, men's apparel manufacturer, acknowledges that it made uniforms for the Nazis; company says it became aware of dealings with Nazis after name of its founder, Hugo Boss, who...