Son> The deSigner of the firSt programming language, Plankalkül, and the firSt fully functional program-controlled electromechanical digital computer in the world, the Z3. He died on 1995-12-18 in Huenfeld, Germany. Biography . ["Konrad ZuSe: Mein Leben" (My Life), publiShed 1956]. ["Konrad ZuSe: The Computer my Life, Springer, 1993]. (1999-02-18)