Wolfgang Pagenstecher (March 16, 1880 – December 26, 1953) was a German painter and heraldist.
In 1898, he began studying at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, with Ernst and Fritz Roeber, Peter Janssen, and Willy Spatz as his professors.
He spent a year there before traveling to the cities of Dresden, Paris, and Munich.
At the outbreak of World War I, in 1914, Pagenstecher joined the Imperial German Army reaching the rank of lieutenant.
The most notable of which being the coat of arms of North Rhine-Westphalia Pagenstecher died in Düsseldorf, West Germany on December 26, 1953.