Who is the this guy ?

[Ian Hulley]

If i am not mistaking Hugo Boss and graphic designer from Berlin designed black uniform for SS,Hugo was also supplier of material.

The black uniform for the Allgemeine SS


In 1932,<SUP id=cite_ref-5 class=reference sizset="false" sizcache07565797057669928="473.0.588" jQuery181016063919917748864="21">[6]</SUP> the SS introduced its most notorious uniform, the black ensemble designed by Karl Diebitsch (later to become an SS-Oberführer) and graphic designer SS-Sturmhauptführer Walter Heck.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_uniform

Hugo Boss did indeed hold an RZM Hersteller number.

Ian

[Eddie]

A Gerhard Rossbach acquired the bolts of cloth for the early SA uniforms in Austria that had been destined for Imperial troops in the colonies so he got them for cheap and then Boss manufactured them....

Interesting,thanks !

[Eddie]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_uniform

Hugo Boss did indeed hold an RZM Hersteller number.

Ian

Thanks for the link Ian

[Winkelman]

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[A c h t u n g !]

Hugo Boss started his clothing company in 1924 in Metzingen, a small town south of Stuttgart, where it is still based. However, due to the economic climate in Germany of the time, at the time Boss was forced into bankruptcy. In 1931, he reached an agreement with his creditors, leaving him with six sewing machines to start again. The same year, he became a member of the Nazi party and a sponsoring member ("Förderndes Mitglied") of the Schutzstaffel (SS). He later stated himself that he had joined the party because of their promise to end unemployment and because he felt "temporarily" withdrawn from the Lutheran church. He joined the German Labour Front in 1936, the Reich Air Protection Association in 1939, and the National Socialist People's Welfare in 1941. His sales increased from 38,260 RM in 1932 to over 3,300,000 RM in 1941, while his profits increased in the same period from 5,000 RM to 241,000 RM. Though he claimed in a 1934/1935 advertising that he had been a "supplier for Nazi uniforms since 1924", such supplies are probable since 1928/1929 and certain since 1934, when he became an Reichszeugmeisterei-licensed (official) supplier of uniforms to the Sturmabteilung, Schutzstaffel, Hitler Youth, National Socialist Motor Corps, and other party organizations. To meet demand in later years of the war, Boss used about 30 to 40 prisoners of war and about 150 forced laborers, from the Baltic States, Belgium, France, Italy, Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union. According to German historian Henning Kober, the company managers were "avowed nazis", "the Boss were all great admirers of Adolf Hitler", and Hugo Boss had in 1945 in his apartment a photograph of himself with Hitler taken in the latter's Obersalzberg retreat. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Boss)

[Obergruppen2]

My favorite tailor, most of my suits are Hugo Boss