Manfred Westheimer was a telecommunications engineer and also the ex-husband of Ruth Westheimer. Manfred Westheimer’s ex-wife Ruth also known as Dr. Ruth, is a Jewish German-American sex therapist, talk show host, author, professor, Holocaust survivor, and former Haganah sniper.

Manfred Westheimer: Bio Summary

Manfred Westheimer was born in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany on 11 Feb 1927 to his parents, Arthur Westheimer and Else Maier. His zodiac sign is Aquarius. Manfred Westheimer passed away on 3 Apr 1997 in New York, New York, New York, United States of America at the age of 70. Manfred was famous because of his marriage to Dr. Ruth.

Manfred WestheimerCareer

As said earlier, Dr. Ruth’s husband, Manfred is a telecommunications engineer. He gained most of his fame because of his marriage to sex therapist Ruth Westheimer. Like his wife, Westheimer was born in Germany and fled as a child because of the Nazis. His family moved to Portugal in 1938 and then sent him to live with relatives in Louisville, Ky., where he attended high school.

How did Dr. Ruth and Manfred Westheimer meet?

The couple met in 1961 and were married until Manfred’s death in 1997, per Biography. In addition to Ruth’s sweet love story with her husband and long-lasting career, she’s lived an exceptional life.

The pair met on a ski trip to the Catskills. “It wasn’t love at first sight,” Dr. Ruth wrote. “Love at first sight doesn’t exist. The only thing that can exist at first sight is an interest in developing a relationship.” Dr. Ruth called her two prior marriages “legalized love affairs,” but her relationship with Manfred was “true love.” 

“We shared everything during our marriage, up until his passing in 1997. He supported my career when I was just starting as a radio talk show host in the 80s, coming with me every Sunday when I recorded the program at WYNY,” she wrote, revealing that her husband got a kick out of her job as a sex therapist.

When Diane Sawyer, interviewing the couple for the TV show 60 Minutes asked her husband about their sex life, he answered, “The shoemaker’s children have no shoes.”

How did Dr. Ruth’s husband, Manfred Westheimer die?

According to The Morning Call, the couple shared a beautiful love story up until 1997, when Manfred died of a stroke. “I don’t know for sure if relationships can be beshert, maybe,” Ruth shared. “But what I do know is that Fred was the right husband for me.” How cute! Their marriage lasted for 36 years.

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The couple shared one child together, a son named Joel Westheimer. In addition, Manfred adopted Ruth’s daughter from a previous relationship, Miriam. Both of them have doctorates, Miriam Yael Westheimer, who lived in Israel for six years and later married Joel Henry Einleger, and Joel Westheimer, a professor at the University of Ottawa, and four grandchildren. Dr. Ruth said: “I was so short – 4 feet 7 inches – that I couldn’t believe that anything could grow inside of me.”

Dr. Ruth

Manfred Westheimer’s wife, Dr. Ruth Westheimer was born Karola Ruth Siegel on June 4, 1928. The well-known sex expert began working at Planned Parenthood in the 1950s, but rose to prominence in the 1980s after delivering a lecture that sparked controversy.

That lecture landed Dr. Ruth her very own radio talk show titled “Sexually Speaking.” The show not only gained popularity but made Ruth a household name. The radio program touched on matters of relationships and human sexuality, while subsequently launching Ruth’s career as an author and media personality- via The Jerusalem Post.

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