Tilo Kummer
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Tilo Kummer | |
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Kummer in 2024 | |
| Minister for the Environment, Energy, Nature Conservation and Forestry of Thuringia | |
| Assumed office 2024 | |
| Mayor of Hildburghausen | |
| In office 2020–2023 | |
| Member of the Landtag of Thuringia | |
| Assumed office 1 September 2024 (1999-2019) | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 29 June 1968 |
| Party | BSW (since 2024) |
| Other political affiliations | Die Linke (2007-2024) PDS (until 2007) |
| Alma mater | Humboldt University of Berlin |
Tilo Kummer (born 29 June 1968) is a German politician from the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), previously a member of Die Linke. Since 2024 he has been Thuringia's Minister for the Environment, Energy, Nature Conservation and Forestry in the Voigt Cabinet. From 2020 until his deselection in 2023 he was mayor of the town of Hildburghausen. Since 2024 he has again been a member of the Landtag of Thuringia, of which he was already a member from 1999 to 2019.
After graduating from high school in 1987 at the Philanthropinum secondary school in Dessau, Tilo Kummer served as a temporary non-commissioned officer in the Berlin Felix Dzerzhinsky Guards Regiment, which belonged to the Ministry for State Security (MfS) and whose members had to take a special oath to the MfS. According to a report in the Thüringische Landeszeitung, Kummer "comes from a home in which there was no distance to the SED state" and had not applied for service in the guard regiment.[1]
In 1990 he was a production worker at Halle Fisch GmbH. Until 1995 he studied fish farming and water management at the Humboldt University of Berlin, graduating with a degree in fisheries engineering. Kummer worked as a geriatric nurse as part of his long-term care insurance from 1995 to 1999. From 1997 to 2001 he was also the owner of a pet shop. Since 2014 he has been running a part-time business in the agricultural industry.