The cabinet was formed as a coalition government following the Anschluss of Austria in 1938, and it oversaw the majority of World War II before being succeeded in 1944.

[6][7] Also facing unofficial objections from Nazi Germany, Hoop was forced to end the negotiations with Switzerland.

[8] The 1939 Liechtenstein general election was not made public due to the country being under threat from Nazi Germany.

It became known as the "silent election" as no voting actually took place; instead, the Progressive Citizen's Party and Patriotic Union used it to assign roughly an equal number of seats to each other in order to prevent the German National Movement in Liechtenstein (VBDL) from gaining any seats in the Landtag.

[12] Hoop's government considered non-binding, non-provocative diplomacy to be appropriate towards Nazi Germany, supplemented by courtesy gestures.