Wagner family

The family of the composer Richard Wagner:

Family of Carl Friedrich Wagner
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Wagner (1770–1813), a police actuary ∞ 1798 Johanna Rosine Pätz (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). ∞ 1828 Elise Gollmann (1800–1864) ∞ 1854 Alexander Ritter (1833–1896), musician and composer ∞ 1851 Karl Jacoby, merchant ∞ 1859 Alfred Jachmann (1829–1918), district administrator ∞ 1836 Oswald Marbach (1810–1890), university professor ∞ 1828 Friedrich Brockhaus (1800–1865), publisher ∞ 1829 Heinrich Wolfram (1800–1874), opera singer, later a merchant ∞ 1836 Hermann Brockhaus (1806–1877), orientalist ∞ 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, mother of five children (including Cosima's two daughters with Bülow, Blandine and Daniela, Wagner's step-children): ∞ 1900 Franz Beidler (1872–1930), music director ∞ 1908 Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855–1927), author ∞ 1915 Winifred Marjorie Williams (1897–1980), adopted daughter of the pianist Karl Klindworth ∞ 1941 Gertrud Reissinger (1916–1998), dancer and choreographer ∞ 1. Malo Osthoff ∞ 2. Eleonore Gräfin Lehndorff ∞ 1. Jean Launay ∞ 2. Jürg Stenzl (born 1942), musicologist ∞ 1. Udo Proksch (1934–2001) businessman and industrialist (murderer convicted in the Lucona case) ∞ 2. Tilman Spengler (born 1947) author and publisher ∞ Yves Pasquier, film producer ∞ 1. Beatrix Kraus ∞ 2. Teresina Rosetti ∞ 1943 Bodo Lafferentz (1897–1974), Nazi Party member and SS Obersturmbannführer ∞ Manfred Hohmann ∞ Gunhild Mix ∞ Paul Arminjon ∞ Isabella Weiß ∞ Tilo Schnekenburger
 * 1) Albert Wagner (1799–1874), opera singer and stage director
 * 1) Franziska Wagner (1829–1895)
 * 1) Marie Wagner (1831–1876)
 * 1) Johanna Wagner (adopted) (1828–1894), daughter of Eduard Freiherr von Bock von Wülfingen, opera singer and actress
 * 1) Carl Gustav Wagner (1801–1802)
 * 2) Rosalie Wagner (1803–1837), actress
 * 1) Carl Julius Wagner (1804–1862)
 * 2) Luise Wagner (1805–1872), actress
 * 1) Klara Wagner (1807–1875), opera singer
 * 1) Maria Theresia Wagner (1809–1814)
 * 2) Ottilie Wagner (1811–1883)
 * 1) Richard Wagner (1813–1883), composer
 * 1) Isolde Ludowitz von Bülow (1865–1919)
 * 1) Franz Wilhelm Beidler (1901–1981)
 * 2) Eva von Bülow (1867–1942)
 * 1) Siegfried Wagner (1869–1930), composer, conductor and stage director
 * 1) Wieland Wagner (1917–1966), stage director
 * 1) Iris Wagner (1942–2014)
 * 2) Wolf Siegfried Wagner (born 1943),
 * 1) Joy Olivia Wagner
 * 2) Nike Wagner (born 1945), dramaturg and publicist,
 * 1) Louise Launay
 * 2) Daphne Wagner (born 1946), actress
 * 1) Friedelind Wagner (1918–1991)
 * 2) Wolfgang Wagner (1919–2010), stage director,
 * 3) ∞ 1943 Ellen Drexel (1919–2002), divorced 1976
 * 4) Eva Wagner-Pasquier (born 1945), theatre manager
 * 1) Antoine Amadeus Wagner-Pasquier (born 1982)
 * 2) Gottfried Wagner (born 1947), musicologist
 * 1) Eugenio Wagner (born 1987)
 * 2) ∞ 1976 Gudrun Mack-Armann (1944–2007)
 * 3) Katharina Wagner (born 1978), stage director
 * 4) Verena Wagner (1920–2019)
 * 1) Amélie Lafferentz (born 1944)
 * 1) Christopher Hohmann
 * 2) Manfred Lafferentz (born 1945)
 * 1) Leif Henning Lafferentz (born 1979)
 * 2) Winifred Lafferentz (born 1947)
 * 1) Wendy Arminjon (born 1973)
 * 2) Mathias Arminjon (born 1981)
 * 3) Wieland Lafferentz (born 1949)
 * 1) Verena Maja Lafferentz (born 1981), jazz singer
 * 2) Verena Lafferentz (born 1952)

Family of Ludwig Geyer
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) Johannes Maximilian Avenarius (1887–1954)
 * 4) Ferdinand Avenarius (1856–1923)