The Suhl card reader case deals with the 1956 verdict on Charlotte Marquardt (born 1902 in Berlin, died 1975 in Suhl, East Germany). A court in Eastern Germany had condemned Marquardt, an amateur psychic and cartomancy practitioner, to twelve years' imprisonment. The verdict referred to so called Kriegs- und Boykotthetze, incitement to war and boycott: Marquardt had provided favorable forecasts for families preparing to leave East Germany, and when arrested, was in possession of an astrological handbook including a horoscope with a positive outlook on Western Germany.
The judgment has been deemed barbaric[1] and was mentioned several times in documentations about Unrechtsjustiz, systematic injustice in the GDR.[2][3][4][5]
- ^ Petra Weber (2000), Justiz und Diktatur: Justizverwaltung und politische Strafjustiz in Thüringen 1945–1961 : Veröffentlichungen zur SBZ-/DDR-Forschung im Institut für Zeitgeschichte (in German), München: Oldenbourg, ISBN 3-486-56463-3, retrieved 2015-10-22
- ^ Bundesministerium für Gesamtdeutsche Fragen, ed. (1954), Unrecht als System: Dokumente über planmässige Rechtsverletzungen im Sowjetischen Besatsungsgebiet (in German), retrieved 2015-10-22
- ^ Karl Theodor Lieser (1962), Sowjetzonales Strafrecht und Ordre Public (in German), Alfred Metzner, retrieved 2015-10-22
- ^ Bundesministerium für Gesamtdeutsche Fragen, ed. (1957), Dokumente des Unrechts: das SED-Regime in der Praxis (in German), retrieved 2015-10-22
- ^ Müller-Römer, Dietrich (1965-01-01). Die Grundrechte in Mitteldeutschland (in German). Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik.
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