 In cooperation with the "Johanniter Orden" (the Protestant German Order of Saint John), the "Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe" was founded in 1952.In recent years, more national Saint John societies, not directly linked to the British St John Ambulance, have been founded in Europe, notably in Austria, Denmark, Sweden and Poland.At the international meeting of the governing bodies of the Orders of Saint John in the course of celebrations to mark the Order's 900th anniversary in 1999, the idea to cooperate more intensively within Europe was born.