Hugo boss fashion designer biography

German businessman (1885–1948)

Hugo Ferdinand Boss (8 July 1885 – 9 August 1948)^[1] 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. His clothing company also utilized forced labour drawn from German-occupied territories and POW camps, to manufacture uniforms for the SS and later the Wehrmacht.

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Early life

Boss was born in Metzingen, Kingdom of Württemberg, to Luise (née Münzenmayer) and Heinrich Boss,^[1] the youngest of five children. He 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.^{[citation needed]} In 1914, he was mobilized into the army and served through World War I, ending it as a corporal.^&#