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 Divine Word Missionaries, Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430). The Missionaries established a 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 eight km north-east of Bonn and three km south-west of Siegburg.
Not to be confused with Saint-Augustin (disambiguation) or Saint Augustine.
Town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Sankt Augustin
Town
Town hall
Coat of arms
Location of Sankt Augustin within Rhein-Sieg-Kreis district
West Regional Command German Federal Police (Bundespolizei), headquarter of the Police tactical unit GSG 9 (Grenzschutzgruppe 9)
Logistics of unified armed forces of Germany (Bundeswehr)
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of the German Social Accident Insurance
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
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
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