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

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