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Pre-World War II work and the Z1
Born in Berlin Germany on 22 June 1910 he moved with his family in 1912 to Braunsberg East Prussia where his father was a postal clerk. The Z4 was delivered to ETH Zurich on 12 July 1950 and proved very reliable. A request by his co-worker Helmut Schreyer—who had helped Zuse build the Z3 prototype in 1938—for government funding for an electronic successor to the Z3 was denied as "strategically unimportant".
Much of his early work was financed by his family and commerce but after 1939 he was given resources by the Nazi German government. In 1969 Zuse suggested the concept of a computation-based universe in his book Rechnender Raum (Calculating Space). His greatest achievement was the world's first functional program-controlled Turing-complete computer the Z3 which became operational in May 1941.
