Hugo boss biography
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Hugo Boss (businessman)
German businessman (–)
Hugo Ferdinand Boss (8 July – 9 August )[1] was a German businessman and an early member of the Nazi Party.
Hugo boss biography
He was the founder of the fashion house Hugo Boss AG.
He was an active member of the Nazi Party from , 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.
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 to , and then worked in a weaving mill in Konstanz.
He took over his parents' lingerie shop in Metzingen in , as heir.[citation needed] In , he was mobilized into the army and served through World War I, ending it as a corporal.[citation needed]