Wagner family

Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Wagner (1770–1813), a police actuary
∞ 1798 {{ill|Johanna Rosine Pätz|de|Johanna Rosine Wagner}} (1778–1848), daughter of a baker (after being widowed, in 1814 she became the partner of the painter, actor and writer Ludwig Geyer (1779–1821), whose rumoured paternity of Richard Wagner is neither substantiated nor disproved).

1. Albert Wagner (1799–1874), opera singer and stage director
   ∞ 1828 Elise Gollmann (1800–1864)
2. Franziska Wagner (1829–1895)
   ∞ 1854 Alexander Ritter (1833–1896), musician and composer
3. Marie Wagner (1831–1876)
   ∞ 1851 Karl Jacoby, merchant
4. Johanna Wagner (adopted) (1828–1894), daughter of Eduard Freiherr von Bock von Wülfingen, opera singer and actress
   ∞ 1859 Alfred Jachmann (1829–1918), district administrator
5. Carl Gustav Wagner (1801–1802)
6. {{ill|Rosalie Wagner|de}} (1803–1837), actress
   ∞ 1836 Oswald Marbach (1810–1890), university professor
7. Carl Julius Wagner (1804–1862)
8. {{ill|Luise Wagner|de|Luise Brockhaus}} (1805–1872), actress
   ∞ 1828 {{ill|Friedrich Brockhaus|de|Friedrich Brockhaus (Verleger)}} (1800–1865), publisher
9. Klara Wagner (1807–1875), opera singer
   ∞ 1829 Heinrich Wolfram (1800–1874), opera singer, later a merchant
10. Maria Theresia Wagner (1809–1814)
11. Ottilie Wagner (1811–1883)
    ∞ 1836 Hermann Brockhaus (1806–1877), orientalist
12. Richard Wagner (1813–1883), composer
    ∞ 1. 1836 Minna Planer (1809–1866), actress
    ∞ 2. 1870 Cosima Liszt (1837–1930), daughter of Franz Liszt and Marie d'Agoult, divorced in 1870 from the conductor Hans von Bülow,{{cite book |last1=Walker |first1=Alan |author-link=Alan Walker (musicologist) |title=The Great Composers: Liszt |pages=40,78,92 |date=1973 |publisher=T. Y. Crowell Co. |location=New York |isbn=9780690496994 |ol=21091256M}} mother of five children (including Cosima's two daughters with Bülow, {{ill|Blandine|de|Blandine Gravina}} and Daniela, Wagner's step-children):
13. Isolde Ludowitz von Bülow (1865–1919)
    ∞ 1900 {{ill|Franz Beidler|de}} (1872–1930), music director
14. {{ill|Franz Wilhelm Beidler|de}} (1901–1981)
15. Eva von Bülow (1867–1942)
    ∞ 1908 Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855–1927), author
16. Siegfried Wagner (1869–1930), composer, conductor and stage director
    ∞ 1915 Winifred Marjorie Williams (1897–1980), adopted daughter of the pianist Karl Klindworth
17. Wieland Wagner (1917–1966), stage director
    ∞ 1941 Gertrud Reissinger (1916–1998), dancer and choreographer
18. {{ill|Iris Wagner|de|Iris Wagner (Künstlerin)}} (1942–2014)
19. {{ill|Wolf Siegfried Wagner|de}} (born 1943),
    ∞ 1. Malo Osthoff
    ∞ 2. Eleonore Gräfin Lehndorff
20. Joy Olivia Wagner
21. Nike Wagner (born 1945), dramaturg and publicist,
    ∞ 1. Jean Launay
    ∞ 2. Jürg Stenzl (born 1942), musicologist
22. Louise Launay
23. {{ill|Daphne Wagner|de}} (born 1946), actress
    ∞ 1. Udo Proksch (1934–2001) businessman and industrialist (murderer convicted in the Lucona case)
    ∞ 2. Tilman Spengler (born 1947) author and publisher
24. Friedelind Wagner (1918–1991)
25. Wolfgang Wagner (1919–2010), stage director,
26. ∞ 1943 Ellen Drexel (1919–2002), divorced 1976
27. Eva Wagner-Pasquier (born 1945), theatre manager
    ∞ Yves Pasquier, film producer
28. Antoine Amadeus Wagner-Pasquier (born 1982)
29. Gottfried Wagner (born 1947), musicologist
    ∞ 1. Beatrix Kraus
    ∞ 2. Teresina Rosetti
30. Eugenio Wagner (born 1987)
31. ∞ 1976 Gudrun Mack-Armann (1944–2007)
32. Katharina Wagner (born 1978), stage director
33. Verena Wagner (1920–2019)
    ∞ 1943 Bodo Lafferentz (1897–1974), Nazi Party member and SS Obersturmbannführer
34. Amélie Lafferentz (born 1944)
    ∞ Manfred Hohmann
35. Christopher Hohmann
36. Manfred Lafferentz (born 1945)
    ∞ Gunhild Mix
37. Leif Henning Lafferentz (born 1979)
38. Winifred Lafferentz (born 1947)
    ∞ Paul Arminjon
39. Wendy Arminjon (born 1973)
40. Mathias Arminjon (born 1981)
41. Wieland Lafferentz (born 1949)
    ∞ Isabella Weiß
42. Verena Maja Lafferentz (born 1981), jazz singer
43. Verena Lafferentz (born 1952)
    ∞ Tilo Schnekenburger

The widowed Johanna Wagner, became the partner of Ludwig Geyer in 1814. It is assumed that they married although no evidence has been found of this. It has been speculated that Geyer was Richard Wagner's biological father.

Ludwig Geyer (1779–1821) ∞? 1815 Johanna Wagner

1. Caecilie Geyer (1815–1893)
   ∞ Eduard Avenarius (1809-1885)
2. Richard Avenarius (1843–1896)
3. {{ill|Johannes Maximilian Avenarius|de}} (1887–1954)
4. Ferdinand Avenarius (1856–1923)

• Wagner (surname)

{{reflist}}

• Carr, Jonathan: The Wagner Clan: The Saga of Germany's Most Illustrious and Infamous Family. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2007. {{ISBN|0-87113-975-8}}

• [http://www.wagnermuseum.de/files/pdf/Stammbaum-Familie-Wagner-Liszt.pdf Wagner family tree] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714153024/http://www.wagnermuseum.de/files/pdf/Stammbaum-Familie-Wagner-Liszt.pdf |date=2014-07-14 }}
• [http://www.monsalvat.no/wagtree.gif Wagner Family Tree (English)]

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