Sankt Augustin ( Ripuarian: ''Sank Aujustin'') is a town in the
Rhein-Sieg
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district, in
North Rhine-Westphalia
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,
Germany
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. It is named after the patron saint of the
Divine Word Missionaries
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, Saint
Augustine of Hippo
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(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
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(
German
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**Ger ...
: ''Stadtrechte''). Sankt Augustin is situated about eight km north-east of
Bonn
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*1969–1984: Karl Gatzweiler ( CDU)
*1989–1994: Wilfried Wessel (CDU)
*1994–1995: Anke Riefers (
SPD
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Saskia Esken has been the ...
)
*1995: Hans Jaax (SPD) (temporary)
*1995–1999: Anke Riefers (SPD)
*1999–2020: Klaus Schumacher (CDU)
*Since 2020: Max Leitterstorf (CDU)
Grantham
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, England, United Kingdom
*
Mevaseret Zion
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German Federal Police
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(Bundespolizei), headquarter of the
Police tactical unit
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GSG 9
, formerly (), is the police tactical unit of the German Federal Police ''(Bundespolizei (Germany), Bundespolizei)''. The state police (''Landespolizei'') maintain their own tactical units known as the ''Special Deployment Commando, Spezialein ...
(Grenzschutzgruppe 9)
* Logistics of unified armed forces of Germany (
Bundeswehr
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* 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
Klaus Kinkel (17 December 1936 – 4 March 2019)
(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
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, works here
*
Oliver Masucci
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(born 1968), actor, grew up in Mülldorf
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Luciana Diniz
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