Tilo Kummer (born 29 June 1968) is a German politician from the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), previously a member of Die Linke.

After graduating from high school in 1987 at the Philanthropinum secondary school in Dessau, Tilo Kummer served as a temporary non-commissioned officer [de] 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.

Until 1995 he studied fish farming and water management at the Humboldt University of Berlin, graduating with a degree in fisheries engineering.

[3] In December 2022, the Hildburghausen city council decided, with the necessary two-thirds majority, to hold a referendum to vote Kummer out of office.

[6] On 15 March 2024, Kummer was elected managing director of the state association; BSW Thuringia [de].