Maik Tändler

Maik Tändler (born in 1979) is a German historian.

Life and work Maik Tändler was born in Kassel in 1979. He obtained a doctorate from the University of Göttingen in 2015. He has researched German psychology and psychotherapy in the 1970s as cultural history, which was the subject of his PhD dissertation and a 2016 monograph. He has studied the intellectual history of the political right and radical right in Germany. In 2025, he published a monograph about Armin Mohler, a central person of the post-war German New Right, as well as the intellectual milieu around him and how contemporary right-wingers continue to build on his work.

Selected publications Monographs Das therapeutische Jahrzehnt. Der Psychoboom in den siebziger Jahren, Göttingen 2016. Zur rechten Zeit. Wider die Rückkehr des Nationalismus, Berlin 2019 (with Norbert Frei, Franka Maubach and ). Armin Mohler und die intellektuelle Rechte in der Bonner Republik, Göttingen 2025.

Edited volumes Das beratene Selbst. Zur Genealogie der Therapeutisierung in den ‚langen‘ Siebzigern, Bielefeld 2011 (with , Jens Elberfeld and Pascal Eitler). Das Selbst zwischen Anpassung und Befreiung. Psychowissen und Politik im 20. Jahrhundert, Göttingen 2012 (with ). In der NS-Zeit verfolgte Abgeordnete des saarländischen Landtags. Ein Handbuch, Göttingen 2023.