Hugo Boss (businessman)
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Hugo Ferdinand Boss was a German businessman who founded the fashion house Hugo Boss. He was an active member of the Nazi Party from 1931, and remained so until Nazi Germany's capitulation. His clothi
SS-Gruppenführer Hans Lammers in black Allgemeine-SS uniform 1938
Walter Heck
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Walter Heck was a German graphic designer who created the SS double 'Siegrune' symbol for the Schutzstaffel, the elite corps of the Nazi Party, in 1929, the runic emblem of the Sturmabteilung, and co-
Hugo Boss (businessman)
…quarter of 1932, the all-black SS uniform (to replace the SA brown shirts) was designed by SS-Oberführer Prof. Karl Diebitsch, and graphic designer Walter Heck, who had no affiliation with the company. The Hugo Boss company produced these black uniforms along with the brown SA shirts and the black-and-brown…
A page from a uniform booklet published late 1932, where 'SS' (Schutzstaffel) is written in Fraktur script. The image also shows the early SS brown shirt uniform and an early variant of the Nazi elite corps' skull symbol (Totenkopf).
German uniform chart reproduced in an American newspaper in December 1933. At the top, Heck's new SS logo, his runic SA (Sturmabteilung) emblem, and the black SS uniform he designed together with Karl Diebitsch can be seen.