Hans Graf von Matuschka

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Hans Josef Count von Matuschka

Hans Josef Otto Graf von Matuschka, Baron von Toppolczan and Spaetgen (born December 3, 1885 in Berlin , † January 11, 1968 in Aachen ) was a German consul , administrative lawyer and reserve officer .

Life

The son of Major General Guido Graf von Matuschka, Baron von Toppolczan and Spaetgen (1849–1935) and his wife Hedwig, née von Hertzberg (1863–1940) attended grammar school in Schweidnitz , where he graduated from high school in 1904. He then studied law at the universities of Heidelberg, Munich and Berlin. Since 1905 he was a member of the Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg .

Matuschka was accepted into the Prussian judicial service as a trainee lawyer in 1908 and worked as such in Nauen until 1911 . Subsequently, he was employed as a government trainee with the government in Potsdam and Rathenow until 1914 , where he was recently promoted to government assessor.

During the First World War , Matuschka did his military service and was discharged prematurely from military service as a reserve lieutenant in the 3rd Guard Uhlan Regiment and awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd class.

In 1917 Matuschka resumed his administrative career and was initially employed as a government assessor at the Commissariat for Lithuania in the Reich Ministry of the Interior . A year later he was appointed attaché in the Foreign Office and transferred to the Reich Commissioner for the German Baltic Sea Regions and Lithuania in the Reich Chancellery in Berlin. In 1922 he then moved to the government in Aachen, where he was promoted to government councilor in 1921 . At his own request, he resigned from the civil service in 1922 and began an internship at Deutsche Bank . In addition, he worked in various areas of industry, including as managing director of Carl Nellessen, JM Sohn , in Aachen .

In 1925 Matuschka went back to the Prussian administrative service and initially worked for the Upper Presidium in Opole , Upper Silesia Province , where he was also appointed to the Upper Government in 1929 . From 1933 to 1934 he then temporarily took over the office of district administrator in the Tost-Gleiwitz district . Subsequently, Matuschka was employed in the service of the Foreign Office as a full-time member of the Mixed Commission for Upper Silesia in Katowice and in 1938/39 as a consul at the Consulate General in Poznan , where he was promoted to major in the reserve in 1938 . From 1939 to 1940 he was a member of the German embassy in Bucharest and from 1940 to 1944 took over the management of the consulate in Kosice, Hungary . In the last months of the Second World War he was transferred to the embassy in Pressburg , to the Sillein branch and finally as head of the Ödenburg county branch of the Budapest embassy .

After the end of the Second World War, he finally left civil service and moved his residence to Baesweiler near Aachen. As a pensioner, he was still involved in the German Council of the European Movement and in the Federal Union of European Ethnic Groups , of which he was also elected honorary president. He was also a member of Club Aachener Casino from 1923 .

Matuschka was married to Mathilde Emily Wilhelmine Pastor (1885–1977), daughter of the chairman of the Aachen Cloth Manufacturers' Association, Emil Pastor (1865–1925) from the Burtscheid branch of the Pastor family , and his wife Mathilde nee Nellessen. His brother Emanuel died in 1914 as a lieutenant at sea and officer on watch on the submarine SM U 11 , his brother Heinrich died in 1935 as a colonel and commander of the Glogau fortress as a result of an injury from the First World War. His cousin Gisela Ottilie Maria was the wife of the landowner and politician Heinrich von Heydebrand and the Lasa .

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SURNAME Matuschka, Hans Graf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Matuschka Freiherr von Toppolczan and Spaetgen, Hans Josef Otto Guido Maria Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative officer and consul
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1968
Place of death Aachen