Lunds Akademiska Fäktklubb (known as LundsAFK) builds on a long tradition of fencing in Lund and is especially linked to Lunds University. The university’s first chancellor, Gustaf Otto Stenbock, advocated the recruitment of “necessary exercise masters” already in the year of the inauguration in 1668, and language and dance masters were appointed fairly immediately. In 1672, a chancellor’s decision on the establishment of a fencing master position followed, as well as in 1673 a royal decision on a stable master’s dito. At least one fencing master also managed to be recruited before the Scanian War began in 1676. Today, only the kappelmeister and the fencing master remain, the latter is today an honorary title at the Lund University.

1670-tal – Andreas Sunde

1684-1714 – Christoffer Porath (dead 1714)

1714-1733 – Christoffer Porath (lived between 1689 and 1745)

1733-1742 – Don Emanuel Fredrik De Bada

1742-1745 – Löjtnant Helfenstein

1745-1761 – Matthias Bille

1763-1804 – Christoffer Porath (lived between 1717 and 1804)

1805-1813 – Pehr Henrik Ling

1814-1843 – Gustaf Johan Schartau

1842-1862 – Gustaf Nyblæus

1862-1882 – Bror Adolf Georg Ridderborg (off duty during autumn semester 1881)

1881 – John Rothstein (deputy during the autumn semester 1881)

1882-1916 – Carl Anders Henrik Norlander

1917-1924 – Philip Einar Oterdahl (deputy)

1924-1948 – Osvald Kragh

1951-1975 – Francesco Gargano (also deputy instructor 1948–1951)

1975-1976 – Orvar Jönsson

1976-2008 – Rolf Edling

2010- – Michael Erenius (read more in “Our coach and Leadership Philosophy“)