In memory of Matthias Eißing (Embarcadero, formerly Borland/Inprise/Borland/CodeGear)
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/16
Earlier today, I got the sad news that my friend Matthias Eißing suddenly passed away in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday.
Valentines day will never be the same.
Rest in Peace dear Matthias Eißing. Hope you will virtually keep drinking beer and keep the great conversations that made you so many friends going.
🕯️
[Wayback/Archive] Eine sehr traurige Nachricht – Delphi-PRAXiS
Mit einer Mischung aus blankem Entsetzen und großer Trauer muss ich Euch leider mitteilen, dass unser langjähriges Community-Mitglied Matthias Eißing in der Nacht zu Mittwoch plötzlich und völlig unerwartet verstorben ist.
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Helping others with is technical knowledge was what Matthias loved doing so much: in person (see [Wayback/Archive] Matthias Eißing – Entwickler Konferenz and [Wayback/Archive] Programm | EKON 27 – Die Entwickler Konferenz für Delphi & more), virtual (watch [Wayback/Archive] Magdeburger Developer Days 2021 03.09.2021 – Matthias Eißing “Delphi Community Edition” – YouTube), individually (uncountable chat messages, phone and video calls, e-mails and in-company meetings), white papers / blog posts (like [Wayback/Archive] HighDPI Entwicklung unter Windows) and forum messages (just see the list at [Wayback/Archive] Delphi-PRAXiS – Ergebnis der Suchanfrage).
I had hoped to meet at EKON28 again, as our story goes back to the very first [Wayback/Archive] EKON – The Conference for Delphi & More in 1997 @ the Raunheim Astron Hotel Rhein-Main organised by Masoud Kamali ([Wayback/Archive] Massi Kamali (@MasoudMassi) / Twitter).
EKON was the first conference by Masoud/S&S. It and later conferences helped the Astron Hotels in the southern Frankfurter area (a few years Raunheim, Rüsselsheim and many years Mörfelden) grow a lot and it was the base were Matthias and a lot of other developers kept meeting up and started to know about each others personal lives as well.
It was also where I got in touch with, and later joined the Better Office team which cooperated a lot with Matthias. The German and Dutch Better Office companies are no more, but our friendships with Matthias staid.
So both personally and on behalf of the former BO teams: we will be forever grateful to have known Matthias.
We wish his better half Maria, their families and friends lots of strength is this period of grief and hope that they will too find consolation by remembering all the nice – and often little (hello cats!) – things Matthias sparked in their lives.
Always in hour hearts.
🕯️🙏
R.I.P.Matthias, 1970-08-06 … 2024-02-14
--jeroen
PS 0:
The beautiful funeral was on 2024-03-08.
PS 1: Other obituaries:
- [Wayback/Archive] TMS Software | Blog | In memory of Matthias Eissing
- [Wayback/Archive] Matthias Eißing, Technical Consultant at Embarcadero DACH
References (most tweets from before I wrote this obituary blog post):
- [Wayback/Archive] Delphi-PRAXiS – Einzelnen Beitrag anzeigen – Eine sehr traurige Nachricht
- Tweets
- [Waybacksave/Archive] Just got the sad news that my friend @matthiaseissing suddenly passed away in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday. Rest in Peace dear Matthias Eißing. Hope you will virtually keep drinking beer and keep the great conversations going. 🕯️
- [Waybacksave/Archive] This was Matthias doing what he loved to do: … Hoped to meet at EKON28 again, as our story goes back to the very first @EntwicklerKON in 1997 @ the Raunheim Astron Hotel Rhein-Main organised by @MasoudMassi. It was also where I got in touch with, and later
- [Waybacksave/Archive] joined the Better Office team. The German and Dutch Better Office companies are no more, but our friendships with Matthias staid. So both personally and on behalf of the former BO teams: we will be forever grateful to have known Matthias. Always in hour hearts. 🕯️🙏
- [Waybacksave/Archive]
wiert.me/2024/02/16/in-memory-of-matthias-eising-embarcadero-formerly-borland-inprise-borland-codegear - [Waybacksave/Archive] Matthias was the guy with the microphone.
- [Waybacksave/Archive] After some sleep I found out when Matthias sent me that 2012 picture: on my birthday in 2022. That gesture connected two important parts of my life: still being alive and the EKON/DelphiPraxis/BO peak days 10 years before it. The kind friendship 🙏
Matthias was also briefly mentioned in the (died because of link-rot) [Wayback/Archive] Delphi turns 25 years old today… – FlixEngineering LLC. The archived versions show that the German speaking Delphi community was as much alive and kicking as the English speaking one which was in a big part accomplished by Matthias.
PS 2: a very special picture.
After some sleep I found out when Matthias sent me the DelpiTage 2012 picture below: on my birthday in 2022.
That gesture connected two important parts of my life: still being alive and the EKON + DelphiTage/DelphiPraxis + Better Office peak days 10 years before it.
The kind friendship 🙏
[Wayback/Archive] Matthias Eißing – Happy Birthday 🎉🎂🎊 | Facebook
[Wayback/Archive] 240713_400778133322050_2124585580_o.jpg (2048×1153)
The picture was originally shot by Daniel Magin (of Better Office Germany): [Wayback/Archive] Facebook: Daniel Magin September 22, 2012 · P1010306 — with Jeroen Wiert Pluimers and 2 others .
[Wayback/Archive] M0YdHJHC_400x400.jpg (400×400)
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