North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia or North-Rhine/Westphalia, commonly shortened to NRW, is a States of Germany, state () in Old states of Germany, Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhabitants, it is the List of German states by population, most ...
,
Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...
Augustine of Hippo
Augustine of Hippo ( , ; ; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430) was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa. His writings deeply influenced the development of Western philosop ...
(354-430). 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 ( German: ''Stadtrechte''). Sankt Augustin is situated about 8 km northeast of
Bonn
Bonn () is a federal city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, located on the banks of the Rhine. With a population exceeding 300,000, it lies about south-southeast of Cologne, in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr region. This ...
and 8 km southwest of
Siegburg
Siegburg (; i.e. ''fort on the Sieg (river), Sieg river''; Ripuarian language, Ripuarian: ''Sieburch'') is a city in the district of Rhein-Sieg-Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located on the banks of the rivers Sieg (river), Sieg ...
. 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.
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)
Grantham
Grantham () is a market town and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, situated on the banks of the River Witham and bounded to the west by the A1 road (Great Britain), A1 road. It lies south of Lincoln, England ...
, England, United Kingdom
* Mevaseret Zion, Israel
* Szentes, Hungary
and has a Community Climate Partnership with:
* Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic (since 2022)
Federal Government organizations
* Headquarters of the Federal Police Regional Directorate (''Bundespolizeidirektion'')
* Headquarters of the GSG 9 (''Grenzschutzgruppe 9'') since 1972; the
counter-terrorism
Counterterrorism (alternatively spelled: counter-terrorism), also known as anti-terrorism, relates to the practices, military tactics, techniques, and strategies that governments, law enforcement, businesses, and intelligence agencies use to co ...
tactical unit of the Federal Police, formerly the Federal Border Guard ('' Bundesgrenzschutz'')
* Federal Police Air Group (''Bundespolizei-Fliegergruppe'')
* Logistics Agency of the Federal Armed Forces (''
Bundeswehr
The (, ''Federal Defence'') are the armed forces of the Germany, Federal Republic of Germany. The is divided into a military part (armed forces or ''Streitkräfte'') and a civil part, the military part consists of the four armed forces: Germ ...
'') since 1957, relocated to
Koblenz
Koblenz ( , , ; Moselle Franconian language, Moselle Franconian: ''Kowelenz'') is a German city on the banks of the Rhine (Middle Rhine) and the Moselle, a multinational tributary.
Koblenz was established as a Roman Empire, Roman military p ...
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 (dissolved in 2014)
* Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of the German Social Accident Insurance
* Federal Archives (''Bundesarchiv''); one of the two "interim deposit" branches of the ''Bundesarchiv'' (the other 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
Klaus Kinkel (17 December 1936 – 4 March 2019) 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
The Bundestag (, "Federal Diet (assembly), Diet") is the lower house of the Germany, German Federalism in Germany, federal parliament. It is the only constitutional body of the federation directly elected by the German people. The Bundestag wa ...
, works here
* Oliver Masucci (born 1968), actor, grew up in Mülldorf
* Luciana Diniz (born 1970), Brazilian horsewoman, lives here