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▲{{short description|German fashion designer and businessman}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Hugo Boss
| image = Hugo-boss.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Hugo in 1933
| birth_name = Hugo Ferdinand Boss
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1885|07|08|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Metzingen]], [[Kingdom of Württemberg|Württemberg]], [[German Empire]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1948|08|09|1885|07|08|df=yes}}
| death_place = Metzingen, [[Württemberg-Hohenzollern]], [[Allied-occupied Germany]]
| other_names = ▼
▲| party = [[Nazi Party]] (1931-1945)
▲| other_names =
▲| known_for = Founding [[Hugo Boss]] Luxury clothing company
| footnotes = ▼
▲| occupation = {{hlist|Fashion designer|entrepreneur}}
▲|footnotes =
}}
'''Hugo Ferdinand Boss''' (8 July 1885 – 9 August 1948)<ref name="Geneall">{{cite web|title=Hugo Ferdinand Boss|website=Geneall.net|url=http://www.geneall.net/D/per_page.php?id=481001}}</ref> was a German
He was an active member of the [[Nazi Party]] from 1931, and remained so until [[Nazi Germany#Turning point and collapse|Nazi Germany's capitulation]]. His clothing company also utilized [[Forced labour under German rule during World War II|forced labour drawn from German-occupied territories]] and [[POW]] camps, to manufacture uniforms for the ''[[SS]]'' and later the [[Wehrmacht]]. ==Early life==
Boss was born in [[Metzingen]], [[Kingdom of Württemberg]], to Luise (née Münzenmayer) and Heinrich Boss,<ref name="Geneall"/> the youngest of five children. He [[apprenticeship|apprenticed]] as a merchant, did his military service from 1903 to 1905, and then worked in a weaving mill in [[Konstanz]]. He took over his parents' lingerie shop in Metzingen in 1908, as heir.{{
==Hugo Boss company==
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==Support of Nazism==
{{See also|Hugo Boss#Manufacturing for the Nazi Party}}
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-2008-0276, Hans Heinrich Lammers.jpg|thumb
Boss joined the Nazi Party in 1931, two years before [[Adolf Hitler]] came to power.<ref name=abcarticledirectory-Hugo-Boss-Biography>{{cite news|url=http://www.abcarticledirectory.com/Article/Hugo-Boss-Biography/933303|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100729010534/http://www.abcarticledirectory.com/Article/Hugo-Boss-Biography/933303|url-status=dead|archive-date=29 July 2010|title=Hugo Boss Biography}}</ref> By the third quarter of 1932, the all-black [[Uniforms and insignia of the Schutzstaffel|SS uniform]] (to replace the [[Uniforms and insignia of the Sturmabteilung|SA brown shirts]]) was designed by ''[[SS-Oberführer]]'' Prof. [[Karl Diebitsch]], and graphic designer [[Walter Heck]], who had no affiliation with the company.<ref>McNab, Chris. ''Hitler's Elite: The SS 1939–45'', Osprey 2013, p 90.</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Hugo Boss apology for Nazi past as book is published |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-15008682 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=2 October 2018 |date=21 September 2011}}</ref> The Hugo Boss company produced these black uniforms along with the brown [[Sturmabteilung|SA]] shirts and the black-and-brown uniforms of the [[Hitler Youth]].<ref name="nytimes">{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B00E4DF153FF936A2575BC0A961958260 |title=Hugo Boss Acknowledges Link to Nazi Regime |date=15 August 1997|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=25 September 2008}}</ref><ref>White, Constance C. R. "Patterns: Dealing with Hugo Boss's Nazi tie." ''The New York Times'' 19 August 1997: A20.</ref> Some workers were French and Polish [[prisoners of war]] [[Forced labour under German rule during World War II|forced into labour]].<ref>{{cite news|url=
|access-date=3 October 2011 |date=15 May 1999 |newspaper=[[Daily Record (Scotland)|Daily Record]]
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|title=Hugo Boss facing Holocaust lawsuit}}</ref> The misuse of 140 Polish and 40 French forced workers led to an apology by the company.<ref>{{cite web|last=Abramovitch |first=Seth |title=Hugo Boss Apologizes For Making Nazis Look Fabulous |url=http://gawker.com/5843124/hugo-boss-apologizes-for-making-nazis-look-fabulous |access-date=4 April 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130328012506/http://gawker.com/5843124/hugo-boss-apologizes-for-making-nazis-look-fabulous |archive-date=28 March 2013 }}</ref>
After [[World War II]], the [[denazification]] process saw Boss initially labeled as an "activist, supporter and beneficiary" of [[
==Death==
Boss died
==References==
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[[Category:Menswear designers]]
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