Matuschka was born in
Schweidnitz,
Silesia (today Świdnica, Poland) and studied law at the
Universities of Lausanne,
Munich,
Berlin and at the
University of Breslau, where he passed his doctorate in 1910. After the end of World War I he worked in several administrative positions and became the county commissioner (Landrat) of
Oppeln in May 1923. He was elected for the Center Party as a member of the Prussian Landtag in 1932 but was forced to resign in 1933 as member of the Landtag and as Landrat of Oppeln. Matuschka worked in the Prussian Ministry of Interior in
Berlin and at the administration of the
Province of Silesia, where he met
Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg. In 1942, Matuschka became an administrative economic adviser in
annexed Regierungsbezirk Kattowitz. He was supposed to become the head of administration of Silesia by the
plotters of 20 July 1944 and was arrested by the
Gestapo after the plot failed. Matuschka was sentenced to death by the
Volksgerichtshof on 14 September 1944 and executed the same day in
Plötzensee Prison next to
Heinrich zu Dohna-Schlobitten,
Hermann Josef Wehrle and
Nikolaus von Üxküll-Gyllenband. Matuschka was married to Pia née Gräfin von Stillfried und Rattonitz, with whom he had three sons and a daughter. == References ==