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He loved sitting with family, friends, and colleagues, discussing travel, different cultures, languages, wine, food, poisonous plants, baking cake, astronomy, German brass bands, driving fast on the Autobahn, and effortlessly reciting Goethe's Faust. The conclusion of these moments often ended with Stefan saying, "We made the world a better place."
He adored his kids, Jana and Felix.
He was proud of what he built during his career and the lives that he impacted.
One of his many gifts was his ability to separate his work and home life to do the things that brought him joy hiking and biking. Through hundreds of miles, across continents, in every season, there was a mountain to go up. When the terrain became challenging, when the miles seemed endless, he'd pause, look out at the horizon, and say with quiet hope, "Da hinten werts heller" – the encouraging alpine words that things will get better.
With the greatest love, joy, and happiness I've ever experienced, I am so grateful to have shared a life together. Stefan is survived by his daughter, Jana Bechtold, his son, Felix Stemmer, his mother, Getrud Stemmer, and his brothers, Anton, Wolfgang, and Dieter Stemmer.
He lived in the Netherlands, Italy, the Czech Republic, Germany, and the U.S., and often traveled to Sweden, Japan, and China, making so many friends along the way. If you've read this far, that means you.
I ask you to share your fondest memory, a story, or a moment you experienced with Stefan in the comments. It would mean so much.
Stefan truly made the world a better place.
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Hubert Gommeringer (Musikverein Eigeltingen)
June 22, 2025
Hubert Gommeringer (Musikverein Eigeltingen)
June 22, 2025
Hubert Gommeringer (MV Eigeltingen)
June 22, 2025
Mit dem Tod eines geliebten Menschen verliert man vieles, niemals aber die gemeinsam verbrachte Zeit. Die Nachricht vom viel zu frühen Tod von Stefan hat uns tief betroffen gemacht. Viele schöne Stunden haben wir im Kreise der Musik und der Geselligkeit verbracht. Auf dem ersten Bild vom 01. Mai 1980 sehen wir Stefan mit einigen Kollegen beim traditionellen Vereins-Picknick. Auch damals schon hat er die "Berge" erklommen um mit seiner Klarinette die Menschen zu erfreuen. Zusammen hat er mit seinem Bruder Wolfgang in dieser Zeit oft den Klarinetten-Muckl bei unseren Auftritten gespielt. In diesem Falle (Bild 2) beim Pfingstfest 1981 in Griesingen. Am Fasnachtsmontag waren wir immer eine Bereicherung der Hallenveranstaltung der Krebsbachputzerzunft Eigeltingen. Auf Bild Nr. 3 sehen wir Stefan rechts vom Schild, wo wir als Bayrisches Almfest aufgetreten sind, das war 1985. Als wir im Jahre 2020 in Eigeltingen das große Narrentreffen hatten, und Stefan zufällig in Deutschland war, liess er es sich nicht nehmen uns mit seiner Klarinette zu unterstützen. Auf Bild Nr. 4 sehen wir Stefan als Pirat.
Wenn du jetzt auch nicht mehr unter uns bist, deine Spuren werden bleiben. Wir sind dankbar für die wunderschöne Zeit mit dir. Der Familie wünschen wir in dieser schweren Zeit viel Kraft.
Deine ehemaligen Kollegen und Freunde vom Musikverein Eigeltingen.
Werner de Rossi
May 30, 2025
Goodbye my friend and neighbor from Eigeltingen in germany.
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Frank Heim
May 23, 2025
Good bye old friend.
Iris Bögel
May 21, 2025
being terribly shocked by the Info that Stefan passed away, i want to communicate my condolences. Stefan was our colleague at Unichema/Unilever in Emmerich/Germany and Rotterdam/Netherlands. the picture is from his Farewell Party in Rotterdam 1989.
RIP, dearest Stefan!
Iris Bögel, Stuttgart
Matthias Brandes-Geiger (representing for the classmates)
May 18, 2025
Wir, die Klassenkameradinnen und Klassenkameraden von Stefan sind schockiert und traurig über den plötzlichen Tod unseres lieben und hochgeschätzten Freundes. Es ist eine unerklärliche Wendung des Schicksals, dass er, als passionierter Radsportler und Bergwanderer wohl der Fitteste von uns, so plötzlich gehen musste.
Von 1968 - 1977 absolvierten wir mit ihm unsere Gymnasialzeit in Stockach und lernten ihn als liebenswerten und verlässlichen Freund kennen. Stefan war ein sehr guter Schüler und besonders in Mathematik und Chemie zeigte er hervorragende Leistungen, ohne jemals als "eigenbrötlerischer Streber" zu gelten. Im Gegenteil, für die Klassengemeinschaft war er immer da.
(Foto 1, Stefan, vordere Reihe rechts)
Wir erinnern uns dabei auch an den Schultanzkurs, den er mit Tanzpartnerin Christa souverän absolvierte. Er war jedoch noch viele Jahre danach in tiefer Sorge um die Unversehrtheit der Zehen seiner Tanzpartnerin. Diese Sorge war erst viele Jahre später zu Ende, als Christa im endlich gestand, in ebensolcher Sorge gewesen zu sein. Beide trugen also keine Schäden davon und so fand auch dieses Tanz-Kapitel ein gutes Ende!
(Foto 2, Stefan, hintere Reihe links, Christa steht daneben))
Nach dem Ende der Schulzeit trennten sich die Wege weitgehend, denn die berufliche und private Weiterentwicklung stand für uns alle im Vordergrund. Erst im Jahr 2017, nachdem wir unser 40-jähriges Abitur-Jubiläum feierten, fanden wir wieder mehr und kontinuierlicher zusammen.
(Foto 3, Stefan, hintere Reihe, 2. von rechts)
Es war Stefan, der Mitte 2018 unseren WhatsApp-Gruppenchat initiierte und durch seine Beiträge den Zusammenhalt unserer Klassengemeinschaft maßgeblich stärkte. Wenn tatsächlich einmal eine längere Pause entstand, war es meistens er, der die Kommunikation mit den Worten: "Hey Leute, was geht ab?" wieder ins Laufen brachte.
Unvergessen bleiben seine humorvollen, von tiefer Sympathie für seine zweite Heimat, die USA, geprägten Berichte. Dabei ragen die Beiträge über Thanksgiving und die dazugehörige Esskultur, einschließlich den Rezepten für das "Stuffing" und die obligatorischen "Leftovers" besonders heraus. Berichte über das launenhafte Wetter in Colorado (heute Schnee, morgen Hitze), schlechtgelaunte Klapperschlangen auf Bergpfaden und Bullen als Beifahrer (Howdy Doody lässt grüßen!) erweiterten unser Wissen über die USA weit über das Normale hinaus. Durch Stefan lernten wir lebendige Ausdrücke wie "riding shotgun" und "Holy Moly". Hätten wir sie schon vor 50 Jahren gekannt, wären unsere Englisch-Lehrkräfte in respektvolles Erstaunen verfallen!
Stefan scheute wahrlich kein Thema: Auch über geeignete Bademoden für kühlere Gewässer, wie zum Beispiel den "Isabelle Glacier Lake", tauschten wir uns ausführlich aus. Am Ende entschieden wir uns für das von ihm favorisierte, ziemlich altmodische Modell, konnten es aber leider wegen Einstellung der Produktion nicht mehr beschaffen (ohne Bilder, siehe Gruppenchat).
Wann immer Stefan in Deutschland war, versuchten wir uns zu treffen. Oft für eine Wanderung mit anschließendem Restaurant-Besuch. Die Schwarzwälder-Kirsch-Torte und ein passendes Bier durften dabei natürlich nicht fehlen.
(Foto 4: Beim Aufstieg zum Haldenhof. Stefan´s Humor war oft vielschichtig, er setzte jedoch auch einfachere Späße mit Erfolg ein!)
(Foto 5: In gemütlicher Runde am Ende der Wanderung, Stefan rechte Seite)
Stefan war ein lebensbejahender, fröhlicher und liebenswerter Freund. Wir werden sein Engagement für unsere Gruppe, seinen großen Humor und seine Bodenständigkeit für immer im Gedächtnis bewahren. Unser tiefes Mitgefühl gilt seiner Frau Lisa, seinen Kindern Felix und Jana, sowie seiner Mutter und seinen Brüdern.
Die "1977- Abitur-Gruppe"
Angelika, Bernd, Christa, Claudia, Clemens, Frank, Jürgen, Klaus, Rita, Thomas, Waltraud, Birgit, Wilfried, Jutta, Matthias
Marc Troendle
May 12, 2025
It is unbelievable this message but seems to be real, it only lasts for me to send a true and social leader and good friend my last best wishes to you and your family and utmost regretful condolences....I will definitely miss our dinners and talks, you were a great listener and advisor, just can say Thanks that our ways have been crossed back in 2001 onwards.
Ingolf Dieringer
May 12, 2025
I`m terrible shocked, to hear this. I knew him already when he joined gambro in the marketing team in the 1990th. He was a skilled musician of the clarinette, he joined the MV Boll during this time. We had a "Project" to create a "Schweineliederbuch". I`m very sad, but thankfull to have shared many years with him in the Business at gambro and Joka. Rest in peace my dear friend
Ingolf
AnnMargret Håkansson
May 10, 2025
Dear Lisa! It´s heartbreaking news and my thoughts are with you and the family. Stefan was a dear friend and business partner for a long time and I remember him being very caring. Once we sat in the outdoor bath tub one night in Sweden, drinking beer, when Stefan and my husband found out that they were born exactly the same day. Once, me in Tel Aviv, Stefan in Germany, he save my life by delaying me. We had an argument over the phone and that saved me from being in the middle of a bomb drama. Still very vivid in my mind. My deepest condolences to you and wishes for Stefan that he is in a fantastic place today.
Barb
May 8, 2025
Through my deep friendship with Lisa, I was fortunate to be just a little part of Stefan´s big life. I got to experience his curious nature, and his generous, loving, and discerning personality, as well as witness Lisa and Stefan´s extraordinary relationship. The three of us finished a lovely meal at Sassella during one of our visits to Santa Fe and we walked out of the restaurant. I turned to Lisa and asked, "where´s Stefan?" Lisa replied, "he´s in the kitchen talking to the chef." Apparently, this was not the first time nor was it the last time that Stefan made the effort to directly compliment a restaurant chef on their food.
Stefan was also incredibly thoughtful and clever. During one May visit to Santa Fe, Lisa fell in love with big horn sheep bronze sculpture at a Canyon Road gallery but just couldn´t bring herself to make the purchase. Fast forward to December and Lisa tells me a very heavy package was delivered to their home, not to be opened until Christmas. In the quietest way, Stefan took note of the exact piece Lisa spotted during our visit in May and ordered it some six months later. Again, not the first time nor the last time.
Many great memories - hanging out in Breckenridge, Steamboat, and Winter Park during 2018 Ride the Rockies, eating black forest cake in Germany´s Black Forest on my visit to Tubingen, playing Rummikube in Yuma on a Christmas visit to the Jones´s, and enjoying the wine festival in Winter Park. And I was lucky enough to experience Stefan´s rouladen, pasta carbonara, and tiramisu.
Stefan and Lisa´s relationship was inspirational and aspirational. A relationship of ease, filled with love, mutual respect and many common interests and values. I´m grateful to have been welcomed into their lives and I will miss him a lot.
Hans Pollack
May 7, 2025
You was the only person i know, who was born in same day and same year. Now you are gone, and i'm still here. We will never know whats happen in a day, so grateful everyday i wake up as a heathy man. It so sad that you not are with your love ones anymore. I hope you came to a beautiful place Stefan
Hans Pollack Sweden
Christian Rebhan
May 6, 2025
We are deeply saddened about Stefan´s passing, which came so unexpected. Stefan has been a stronghold in our company. A colleague well known and highly respected for the passion and kindness he brought to everything he did, and admired for the results that he created together with his team as a result of it. Stefan is dearly missed and we will keep his memory alive in our hearts / I will keep his memory alive in my heart. Reflecting on one special memory about Stefan it was when I walked into his office and realised the large picture he had put up behind him. During video calls, I had never been able to grasp the picture in its entirety and it changed how I experienced all following calls from there onwards. In hindsight, I would have wished to have spent more time talking with Stefan beyond our business - so I could have experienced more of his wonderful personality, as well. With deep sympathy, Christian Rebhan
Stacey Cram
May 5, 2025
Stefan Stemmer
When anyone passes, we reflect on their life, their personality, and their effects on those they loved. It is a time for remembrances and is usually somewhat expected.
When Stefan passed, it was a complete surprise since Stefan was so active and in such great general condition. He left us shocked at his passing and better for having known him.
Stefan and I shared a love of the scientific/technical worlds we both worked and thrived in. I loved talking with him about the details of the businesses he and I worked in and the challenges we found there. Stefan´s creative mind never failed to deliver new and useful approaches to the issues we discussed. I can only hope that I occasionally helped him too.
Stefan´s love for Lisa was heartwarming. Maureen (my wife) and I shared in their saga when he got his job in Toledo and when he and Lisa worked through that time of trials with skill and deep compassion. Maureen and I also got the chance to explore in and around Konstantz, Germany with Stefan and Lisa. Stefan brought us to his childhood home near Friedrichshaven and shared stories of growing up in the rural community there. While drinking wine overlooking the lake, Stefan declared the love he has for his kids and his mother.
Stefan brought us to the Oktoberfest in Stuttgart where we met his beautiful daughter, Jana, and saw Stefan truly in his element. He got us all to don the traditional German outfits and Stefan playfully sang the songs while drinking from giant German bier steins. Maureen tried to get Jana to come to the States and marry one of our sons but Jana was able to resist Maureen´s considerable charms.
While living in Colorado, I brought together several highly creative and unique men whom I believed would become friends. One is a world-class painter and sculptor. One owns a commercial fishing boat in Canada focused on catching giant tuna. The other was my German-bourne, intellectual, active, and positive friend, Stefan. The men hit it off and the level of discussions in this and other get togethers was highly entertaining as we explored topics only likely to be explored by such a creative and accomplished group as these men. Stefan was a powerful member and voice in these meetings. I miss him and I miss these get-togethers.
Maureen and I are forever thankful to have known Stefan and Lisa and we are proud they include us as their friends.
Heike Klocke
May 5, 2025
We were all speachless about what happend to Stefan. It is so sad to let him go much too early. We will remember him as a remarkable boss and a friend.
All our thoughts are with his family. We wish you all a lot of strength and convidence for the coming time.
Juergen, Michael, Uwe, Maritta and Heike - the colleagues from Hechingen, Germany
Heike Klocke
May 5, 2025
We were all speachless to hear what happend to Stefan. It is so sad to let him go too early. We will remember him as a remarkabe boss and a friend.
All our thoughts are with Lisa and the whole family. We wish them all a lot of strenght and convidence for the coming month.
We will miss Stefan
Juergen, Michael, Uwe, Maritta and Heike - the colleagues from Hechingen, Germany
Jim and Susan Browning
May 3, 2025
We will miss Stefan, our dear friend and neighbor. He was so interesting to chat with from our decks, while he and Lisa were relaxing after a long hike or bike ride. He made the absolute best Black Forest cake. The world has lost a brilliant, loving man too soon.
Susan and Jim
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