Sankt Augustin

Sankt Augustin
Sankt Augustin
Town
	Town hall
	Coat of arms
	Location of Sankt Augustin within Rhein-Sieg-Kreis district
	Sankt Augustin Sankt Augustin
	Coordinates: 50°46′12″N 7°11′12″E / 50.77000°N 7.18667°E
Country	Germany
State	North Rhine-Westphalia
Admin. region	Köln
District	Rhein-Sieg-Kreis
Subdivisions	8
Government
• Mayor (2020–25)	Max Leitterstorf (CDU)
Area
• Total	34.22 km2 (13.21 sq mi)
Elevation	65 m (213 ft)
Population (2023-12-31)
• Total	56,692
• Density	1,700/km2 (4,300/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	53757
Dialling codes	02241
Vehicle registration	SU
Website	www.sankt-augustin.de

Sankt Augustin (Ripuarian: Sank Aujustin) is a town in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is named after the patron saint of the Steyler missionaries, Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430). The missionaries established the "Saint Augustine Monastery" near the current town centre in 1913. The municipality of Sankt Augustin was established in 1969, and on September 6, 1977, Sankt Augustin acquired town privileges (German: Stadtrechte).^[3] Sankt Augustin is situated about 8 km northeast of Bonn and 8 km southwest of Siegburg. Sankt Augustin belongs to the economic region of Bonn/Rhein-Sieg as well as the scientific region of Bonn. With over 59,000 inhabitants, it is the second-largest town in the Rhein-Sieg district.^[3]

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)

Twin towns – sister cities

Sankt Augustin is twinned with:^[4]

Grantham, England, United Kingdom
Mevaseret Zion, Israel
Szentes, Hungary

and has a Community Climate Partnership with:

Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic (since 2022)

Federal Government organizations

Headquarters of the Federal Police Regional Directorate (Bundespolizeidirektion)
Headquarters of the GSG 9 (Grenzschutzgruppe 9) since 1972; the counter-terrorism tactical unit of the Federal Police, formerly the Federal Border Guard (Bundesgrenzschutz)
Federal Police Air Group (Bundespolizei-Fliegergruppe)
Logistics Agency of the Federal Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) since 1957, relocated to Koblenz at the end of 2012
Federal Agency for the Personnel Management of the Federal Armed Forces
Information and Media Centre of the Federal Armed Forces (dissolved in 2014)
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of the German Social Accident Insurance
Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv); one of the two "interim deposit" branches of the Bundesarchiv (the other located at Hoppegarten near Berlin), used for temporary storage of federal government documents

Notable people

Erich Hampe (1889–1978), army officer, died here
Helmut Rohde (1925–2016), politician (SPD), died here
Gábor Benedek (born 1927), Hungarian modern pentathlete, Olympic champion, lives here
Klaus Förster (1933–2009), tax fraud investigator in Sankt Augustin
Klaus Kinkel (1936–2019), lawyer and politician (FDP), died here
Ute Kircheis-Wessel (born 1953), fencer, Olympic winner, works here
Bettina Bähr-Losse (born 1967), politician (SPD) and former member of the Bundestag, works here
Oliver Masucci (born 1968), actor, grew up in Mülldorf
Luciana Diniz (born 1970), Brazilian horsewoman, lives here

References

^ Wahlergebnisse in NRW Kommunalwahlen 2020, Land Nordrhein-Westfalen, accessed 29 June 2021.
^ "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden Nordrhein-Westfalens am 31. Dezember 2023 – Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes auf Basis des Zensus vom 9. Mai 2011" (in German). Landesbetrieb Information und Technik NRW. Retrieved 2024-06-20.
^ ^a ^b Augustin, Stadt Sankt (2019-03-01). "Unsere Stadt: Stadtportrait" [Our Town: Town portrait] (in German). Stadt Sankt Augustin – Der Bürgermeister.
^ "Unsere Partnerstädte im Ausland". sankt-augustin.de (in German). Sankt Augustin. Retrieved 2021-03-19.

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[1] Wahlergebnisse in NRW Kommunalwahlen 2020, Land Nordrhein-Westfalen, accessed 29 June 2021.

[2] "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden Nordrhein-Westfalens am 31. Dezember 2023 – Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes auf Basis des Zensus vom 9. Mai 2011" (in German). Landesbetrieb Information und Technik NRW. Retrieved 2024-06-20.

[SPSA1-3] Augustin, Stadt Sankt (2019-03-01). "Unsere Stadt: Stadtportrait" [Our Town: Town portrait] (in German). Stadt Sankt Augustin – Der Bürgermeister.

[4] "Unsere Partnerstädte im Ausland". sankt-augustin.de (in German). Sankt Augustin. Retrieved 2021-03-19.

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