Konrad Zuse
Very few people today realise that the invention of the computer, which more or less determines almost all areas of our lives, was made by a German.
Konrad Zuse, born in Berlin in 1910, was actually a civil engineer who was tired of doing monotonous static calculations by hand using the tools of the time. So he tinkered with devices that could carry out such work.
With the Z3. (Zuse 3), he finally succeeded in developing the world's first freely programmable calculating machine in 1941. The rest is history. Zuse died in Hünfeld in 1995.
So Zuse was not a Rhinelander. The Kurt Pauli Foundation and the Konrad Zuse Circle of Friends from Remagen on the Rhine initiated the Rhine Konrad Zuse Thaler to ensure that Konrad Zuse's work is not forgotten. The foundation awards the taler to students who have distinguished themselves through special achievements in the subjects of mathematics and computer science.