Hugo Ott (20 August 1931 – 22 January 2022) was a German historian and academic.
[1] Ott earned a doctoral degree in 1959 with a thesis on the history of Saint Blaise Abbey in the Black Forest.
From 1972 to 1997, he was chair of economic and social history at the University of Freiburg.
He was a member of the scientific advisory board of the research center Forschungsstelle Widerstand gegen den Nationalsozialismus im deutschen Südwesten, headed by Rudolf Lill [de] at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
He held discussions with pastor Emil Kiesel [de], who talked of the inequity within concentration camps between clergy and their fellow prisoners.