Sankt Augustin

Sankt Augustin is a town in the Rhein-Sieg district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is named after the patron saint of the Divine Word Missionaries, Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430). The Missionaries established a monastery near the current city centre in 1913. Sankt Augustin is situated about eight km north-east of Bonn and three km south-west of Siegburg.

Not to be confused with Saint-Augustin (disambiguation) or Saint Augustine.
Sankt Augustin
Town hall
Coat of arms
Location of Sankt Augustin within Rhein-Sieg-Kreis district
BornheimHennefMuch
Sankt Augustin
Sankt Augustin
Coordinates: 50°46′12″N 7°11′12″E
CountryGermany
StateNorth Rhine-Westphalia
Admin. regionKöln
DistrictRhein-Sieg-Kreis
Subdivisions8
Government
 • MayorMax Leitterstorf (CDU)
Area
 • Total34.22 km2 (13.21 sq mi)
Elevation
65 m (213 ft)
Population
 (2019-12-31)[1]
 • Total55,847
 • Density1,600/km2 (4,200/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
53757
Dialling codes02241
Vehicle registrationSU
Websitewww.sankt-augustin.de

Mayors
  • 1969–1984: Karl Gatzweiler (CDU)
  • 1989–1994: Wilfried Wessel (CDU)
  • 1994–1995: Anke Riefers (SPD)
  • 1995: Hans Jaax (SPD) (temporary)
  • 1995–1999: Anke Riefers (SPD)
  • 1999–2020: Klaus Schumacher (CDU)
  • Since 2020: Max Leitterstorf (CDU)

International relations
Main article: List of twin towns and sister cities in Germany

Sankt Augustin is twinned with:[2]

Birlinghoven Castle

Government Organizations
  • West Regional Command German Federal Police, (Bundespolizei) headquarter of Border Guards, Group 9 GSG 9 (Grenzschutzgruppe 9)
  • Logistics of unified armed forces of Germany (Bundeswehr)
  • Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of the German Social Accident Insurance (German: Institut für Arbeitsschutz der Deutschen Gesetzlichen Unfallversicherung), abbreviated as IFA
  • The „Zwischenarchiv Sankt Augustin-Hangelar“; one of the two "interim deposit" branches of the Bundesarchiv (the other one located at Hoppegarten near Berlin), used for temporary storage of federal government documents

Personalities
  • Erich Hampe (1889–1978), Army Officer
  • Helmut Rohde (1925–2016), german politician (SPD), federal minister of education
  • Carl Adam Petri (1926-2010), computer scientist, led an institute in the GMD Research Center for Information Technology from 1968 to 1991
  • Gábor Benedek (born 1927), Hungarian Olympic champion in modern pentathlon
  • Klaus Förster (1933–2009), tax fraud investigator in Sankt Augustin
  • Klaus Kinkel (1936-2019), lawyer and politician (FDP), former German Minister of Justice and Foreign Affairs
  • Ute Wessel (born 1953), Olympic gold medal winner in fencing
  • Bettina Bähr-Losse (born 1967), politician (SPD) and former member of the Bundestag
  • Oliver Masucci (born 1968), actor, grew up in Mülldorf
  • Luciana Diniz (born 1970), Brazilian horsewoman, lives in Sankt Augustin
  • Benedikt Fernandez (born 1985), former soccer goalkeeper, played for TuS Buisdorf
  • Patricia Hanebeck (born 1986), footballer, born and grew up in Sankt Augustin, former footballer of the ASV Sankt Augustin
  • Lukas Kübler (born 1992), soccer player, played in his youth at VfR Hangelar

References
  1. "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden Nordrhein-Westfalens am 31. Dezember 2019" (in German). Landesbetrieb Information und Technik NRW. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
  2. "Unsere Partnerstädte im Ausland". sankt-augustin.de (in German). Sankt Augustin. Retrieved 2019-11-28.
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