Sankt Augustin
# Sankt Augustin

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). Sankt Augustin is situated about eight km north-east of Bonn and three km south-west 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:

* 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
