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.

Sankt Augustin
Town
Town hall
Coat of arms
Location of Sankt Augustin within Rhein-Sieg-Kreis district
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Coordinates: 50°46′12″N 7°11′12″E
Country	Germany
State	North Rhine-Westphalia
Admin. region	Köln
District	Rhein-Sieg-Kreis
Subdivisions	8
Government
• Mayor (2020–25)	Max Leitterstorf[1] (CDU)
Area
• Total	34.22 km2 (13.21 sq mi)
Elevation	65 m (213 ft)
Population  (2020-12-31)[2]
• Total	55,590
• Density	1,600/km2 (4,200/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

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

Government organizations

• 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
• 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

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