Sankt Augustin

Sankt Augustin is a town in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is named after the patron saint of the Society of [the Divine Word|Steyler missionaries], Saint Augustine of Hippo. 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. 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.

Visits

visited on Wednesday 9 November 1983, with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. A Kesteven and [Grantham Girls' School|KGGS] former schoolfriend had proposed visiting the German town to Mrs Thatcher. There was a six-monthly Anglo-German summit in Bonn, eleven miles away. Ivan Dawson attended, chairman of the Grantham twinning association.

Mayors

1969–1984: Karl Gatzweiler
1989–1994: Wilfried Wessel
1994–1995: Anke Riefers
1995: Hans Jaax
1995–1999: Anke Riefers
1999–2020: Klaus Schumacher
Since 2020: Max Leitterstorf

Twin towns – sister cities

Sankt Augustin is twinned with:

and has a Community Climate Partnership with:

Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic

Federal Government organizations

Headquarters of the Federal Police Regional Directorate
Headquarters of the GSG 9 since 1972; the counter-terrorism tactical unit of the Federal Police, formerly the Federal Border Guard
Federal Police Air Group
Logistics Agency of the Federal Armed Forces 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
Institute for [Occupational Safety and Health of the German Social Accident Insurance]
Federal Archives ; one of the two "interim deposit" branches of the Bundesarchiv, used for temporary storage of federal government documents

Notable people

Erich Hampe, army officer, died here
Helmut Rohde, politician, died here
Gábor Benedek, Hungarian modern pentathlete, Olympic champion, lives here
Klaus Förster, tax fraud investigator in Sankt Augustin
Klaus Kinkel, lawyer and politician, died here
Ute Kircheis-Wessel, fencer, Olympic winner, works here
Bettina Bähr-Losse, politician and former member of the Bundestag, works here
Oliver Masucci, actor, grew up in Mülldorf
Luciana Diniz, Brazilian horsewoman, lives here