Katsura Tarō
The name "Dokkyo" is the Japanese-style dual "kanji"-based abbreviation of "Verein für deutsche Wissenschaften", or . What was to become today's Dokkyo University was founded on 18 September 1881 by various people, among them scholars Nishi Amane and Katō Hiroyuki, diplomats Inoue Kaoru and Aoki Shūzō and statesmen Shinagawa Yajirō and Katsura Tarō as "Verein für deutsche Wissenschaften", or The first chancellor was Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa.