Editing Konrad Zuse (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:Konrad Zuse Denkmal im Huenfelder Stadtpark.JPG|thumb|upright|Zuse Memorial in [[Hünfeld]], Hesse]]
Konrad Zuse married Gisela Brandes in January 1945, employing a carriage, himself dressed in tailcoat and top hat and with Gisela in a wedding veil, for Zuse attached importance to a "noble ceremony". Their son [[Horst Zuse|Horst]], the first of five children, was born in November 1945.

While Zuse never became a member of the [[Nazi Party]], he is not known to have expressed any doubts or qualms about working for the Nazi war effort. Much later, he suggested that in modern times, the best scientists and engineers usually have to choose between either doing their work for more or less questionable business and military interests in a [[Deal with the Devil|Faustian bargain]], or not pursuing their line of work at all.<ref name="Zuse_1984"/>

After Zuse retired, he focused on his hobby of painting.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://history-computer.com/konrad-zuse-biography-history-and-inventions/|title=Konrad Zuse – Biography, History and Inventions|date=4 January 2021 |publisher=History Computer|access-date=4 February 2021}}</ref> He signed his paintings as "Kuno [von und zu] See".

Zuse was an [[Atheism|atheist]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer|date=2010|publisher=Random House Digital, Inc.|isbn=978-0-385-52713-2|author=Jane Smiley|quote=Like Alan Turing, Zuse was educated in a system that focused on a child's emotional and philosophical life as well as his intellectual life, and at the end of school, like Turing, Zuse found himself to be something of an outsider—to the disappointment of his very conventional parents, he no longer believed in God or religion.|url=https://archive.org/details/manwhoinventedco00smil_0}}</ref><ref name="Zuse_1993"/>{{rp|pages=12–13}}

Zuse died on 18 December 1995 in [[Hünfeld]], Hesse (near [[Fulda]]) from heart failure.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-konrad-zuse-1526795.html|title=OBITUARY : Konrad Zuse|author=Martin Campbell-Kelly|date=21 December 1995|work=[[The Independent]]}}</ref>