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).
Albert Wagner (1799–1874), opera singer and stage director ∞ 1828 Elise Gollmann (1800–1864)
Franziska Wagner (1829–1895) ∞ 1854
Alexander Ritter (1833–1896), musician and composer
Marie Wagner (1831–1876) ∞ 1851 Karl Jacoby, merchant
Johanna Wagner (adopted) (1828–1894), daughter of Eduard Freiherr von Bock von Wülfingen, opera singer and actress ∞ 1859 Alfred Jachmann (1829–1918), district administrator
Carl Gustav Wagner (1801–1802)
Rosalie Wagner (1803–1837), actress ∞ 1836 Oswald Marbach (1810–1890), university professor
Klara Wagner (1807–1875), opera singer ∞ 1829 Heinrich Wolfram (1800–1874), opera singer, later a merchant
Maria Theresia Wagner (1809–1814)
Ottilie Wagner (1811–1883) ∞ 1836
Hermann Brockhaus (1806–1877), orientalist
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,[1] mother of five children (including Cosima's two daughters with Bülow, Blandine and Daniela, Wagner's step-children):
Nike Wagner (born 1945), dramaturg and publicist, ∞ 1. Jean Launay ∞ 2.
Jürg Stenzl (born 1942), musicologist
Louise Launay
Daphne Wagner (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
Verena Lafferentz (born 1952) ∞ 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
Caecilie Geyer (1815–1893) ∞ Eduard Avenarius (1809-1885)