User:Dierk Hagedorn

Dierk Hagedorn was born in 1966 in Hamburg, Germany, and he started sport fencing at the age of ten. He would have loved to do swordfighting instead but in those days there was just no opportunity. He works for the IT subsidiary of a large German airline for numerous creative issues such as user experience, interface and corporate design. He is an instructor for the long sword at Hammaborg, a club for historical fencing in Hamburg; he is also a passionate wearer of armour. He has transcribed 30 of the approximately 80 surviving fight books in the German language and made them available on the website of his club or published them in book form.