Stefan Tewes

Stefan Tewes (the brother of Jan Peter Tewes) was a German field hockey goalkeeper who participated in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, when the re-unified German team won the final against Australia 2-1. Therefore, the team and all players were awarded the Silver Bay Leaf, Germany’s highest sports award.

In 1991, Stefan Tewes won the European Championships. In total, he won 37 international caps between 1989-93. Domestically, Tewes played with HTC Uhlenhorst Mülheim and helped them win the German national title five times in 1985-88 and 1990. He also won the European Champions Cup three years in succession in 1988-90, before moving to Rot-Weiß München in 1990.

Tewes became a graduated economist and worked with the consultancy company Roland Berger. With his wife, he later founded the German coffeehouse chain Coffee Fellows. Like his brother, he was also a Member of the Board of Trustees of Deutsche Sporthilfe.