The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

Konrad Zuse
Zuse, Konrad

    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 (http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Zuse.html).

   ["Konrad Zuse: Mein Leben" (My Life), published 1956].

   ["Konrad Zuse: The Computer my Life, Springer, 1993].

   (1999-02-18)