Sankt Augustin

Town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Coat of arms

Location of Sankt Augustin within Rhein-Sieg-Kreis district

(2020–25) Max Leitterstorf^[1] (CDU)Area

• Total34.22 km² (13.21 sq mi)Elevation

65 m (213 ft)Population

(2022-12-31)^[2]

• Total56,369 • Density1,600/km² (4,300/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Postal codes

53757

Dialling codes02241Vehicle registrationSUWebsitewww.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 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 northeast of Bonn and three km southwest of Siegburg.

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

References

^ Wahlergebnisse in NRW Kommunalwahlen 2020, Land Nordrhein-Westfalen, accessed 29 June 2021.
^ "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden Nordrhein-Westfalens am 31. Dezember 2022 – Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes auf Basis des Zensus vom 9. Mai 2011" (in German). Landesbetrieb Information und Technik NRW. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
^ Augustin, Stadt Sankt (2019-03-01). "Unsere Stadt". Content Management System (in German). Retrieved 2021-05-15.
^ "Unsere Partnerstädte im Ausland". sankt-augustin.de (in German). Sankt Augustin. Retrieved 2021-03-19.