Mario Count Matuschka

Mario Franz de Paula Count von Matuschka, Baron von Toppolczan and Spaetgen (born February 27, 1931 in Opole , Province of Upper Silesia ) is a former German diplomat .

Life and education

Mario Franz von Matuschka is the eldest of four children of Count Michael von Matuschka , who was executed as an opponent of the regime in 1944, and his wife Pia, née Countess Stillfried-Rattonitz . After the father was removed from his position as district administrator in Opole, the family moved to Berlin in 1933 and to Breslau in 1937 , where the father was appointed to the senior executive as a councilor. There Matuschka attended elementary school and from 1940 to January 1945 the Matthias Gymnasium .

When the Red Army entered Silesia at the end of the war in 1945 , the family managed to flee to the West . In autumn 1945 Matuschka was admitted to the cathedral grammar school in Fulda , where he passed the school leaving examination in 1949. In 1949/50 a year of study in literature and philosophy at the University of Friborg / Switzerland followed . 1950–1954 he studied law , first one year at the law faculty of the University of Paris and then five semesters at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1954 he passed the first state examination in law in Munich and in 1960, after completing his preparatory service in Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria, the second state examination in Munich. 1960 doctorate he with a work of constitutional law to Dr. jur.

Mario Graf Matuschka married Eleonore Countess v. Waldburg-Wolfegg († October 13, 2017). There were four children from the marriage, including the theater and opera director Johannes von Matuschka .

Professional background

In 1961 he joined the Foreign Service of the Federal Republic of Germany. He was employed as an attaché at the observer mission in New York and after the final examination for the Foreign Service in 1963 as Vice Consul and in 1964 Consul at the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Salzburg . In 1966 he was transferred to the Islamabad embassy as a legation counselor and cultural advisor, in 1968 as a consular and from 1969 as a political advisor and first class councilor to the embassy in Tokyo . From 1971 to 1975 he was a lecturer in the Legation Council in the East Asia Department of the Foreign Office in Bonn , and then as Counselor in the Economic Department of the Embassy in London . In 1978 he was appointed deputy head of department in the basic department of the human resources department of the Foreign Office. This was followed by a two-year secondment as deputy chief of protocol to the United Nations in New York.

From 1983 to 1988 he was a lecturer in Legation Counselor I. Kl. Head of the Department for International Technological Cooperation in the Foreign Office. In 1988 Matuschka was appointed State Secretary and Head of Protocol of the State of Berlin by the Berlin Senate . From 1990 to 1993 he headed the economic department of the Foreign Office as ministerial director, the sub-department responsible for international relations in the areas of science, technology, peaceful use of nuclear energy, non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, the environment and telecommunications.

In January 1993 Matuschka became Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris. He held this office until his statutory retirement in March 1996.

As diplomatic advisor to the general commissioner of the Expo 2000 in Hanover , he worked from 1996 on in the preparation of the first world exhibition on German soil, including as authorized representative of the federal government on advertising trips to Algeria, Australia, Brunei, Iceland, Korea, Croatia, Liechtenstein and Malaysia , Morocco, Nepal, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, Slovenia, Tunisia and Vietnam.

In 1997 he became general secretary of the international club La Redoute in Bad Godesberg , and in summer 2000 director of the pavilion of the Holy See at the EXPO Hanover.

Since 2001 Matuschka has held honorary positions in the German Association of the Order of Malta and in other non-profit associations.

Individual evidence

1. ^ New Permanent Representative of Germany to the OECD. (PDF; 4.1 kB) Press release. OECD, January 14, 1993, accessed March 6, 2017 . 

predecessor	Office	successor
Klaus Meyer	Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the OECD in Paris 1993–1996	Werner Kaufmann-Bühler