Josef Hoop
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Franz Josef Hoop was a diplomat and politician who was Prime Minister of Liechtenstein from 1928 to 1945. A member of the Progressive Citizens' Party, he was the President of the Landtag of Liechtenst
Hoop in 1945
Hoop (left) with his government in 1928
Hoop (centre-right) with Alois Vogt, Otto Schaedler, and Ludwig Marxer c. 1938
Hoop (behind Franz Joseph II) outside the Reich Chancellery in Berlin on 2 March 1939
Alexander Frick
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Alexander Frick was a politician from Liechtenstein who served as Prime Minister of Liechtenstein from 1945 to 1962. He later went on to serve in the Landtag of Liechtenstein from 1966 to 1974 and as
Josef Hoop
…Smyslovsky, which had taken refuge in Liechtenstein a few months earlier. The de facto dismissal of Hoop angered many in the FBP. He was succeeded by Alexander Frick. In 1946, Hoop testified against the VDBL leaders when they were charged for the 1939 attempted coup. He studied law at the University of Zurich and…
Photograph by Walter Wachter c. 1960
Frick (center) with Oswald Bühler and Prince Emanuel of Liechtenstein at a music festival in Mauren in June 1954.
Frick (right) at the opening of the new Landesbank building on 28 November 1953