Siegfried Wagner Siegfried Wagner Siegfried Wagner (6 June 18694 August 1930) was a German composer and conductor, the son of Richard Wagner. He was an opera composer and the artistic director of the Bayreuth Festival from 1908 to 1930. Helferich Siegfried Richard Wagner, nicknamed "Fidi," was born in 1869 to Richard Wagner and his future wife Cosima (née Liszt), at Tribschen on Lake Lucerne in Switzerland. Through his mother, he was a grandson of Franz Liszt, from whom he received some instruction in harmony. Some youthful compositions date from about 1882. After he completed his secondary education in 1889, he studied with
Bavarian Political Police rivals, with Hermann Göring controlling the Prussian version and Heinrich Himmler the Bavarian unit. On 9 March 1933, Adolf Wagner, acting Bavarian minister of the interior, under Reich Governor of Bavaria Franz Ritter von Epp, appointed Himmler chief of the Munich Metropolitan Police. After the appointment became official by 1 April 1933, Himmler was given overall command of the BPP, with the title of ""Politischer Polizeikommandeur Bayern". Himmler was now subordinate, if only nominally, under Wagner and had command over all political police in the state. Himmler then appointed his second in command, Reinhard Heydrich as chief of Department IV,