Wagner family

The family of the composer Richard Wagner: Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Wagner (1770–1813), a police actuary ∞ 1798 Johanna Rosine Pätz [de] (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).

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) ∞?

Richard Wagner and family in 1881.
Left to right, top row: Blandine von Bülow, Heinrich von Stein (Siegfried's tutor), Cosima Wagner, Richard Wagner, Paul von Joukowsky (family friend); bottom row: Isolde, Daniela von Bülow, Eva, Siegfried