In August 1932, Kamptz joined the
Nazi Party (membership number 1,258,905). He worked in Department III of the
Prussian Ministry of the Interior from late September 1933 to mid-June 1936. In 1936, he worked as Inspector-General of the Gendarmerie and City Police in the
Ordnungspolizei main office until April 1937. From April 1937 to June 1939, Kamptz was commander of
Berlin's
Schutzpolizei. In March 1938, he became a member of the
Schutzstaffel (SS number 292,714) with the rank of SS-
Oberführer. In June 1939, Kamptz was appointed the
Befehlshaber der Ordnungspolizei or BdO (Commander of the Order Police) in the
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, with headquarters in
Prague. From April 1941 to May 1943, he was back in the main office in Berlin as Inspector-General the Gendarmerie and the Municipal
Schutzpolizei, succeeding
Rudolf Querner. From June 1943 to September 1943, Kamptz was the BdO in the
Reichskommissariat Norway, based in
Oslo. In September 1943, Kamptz was transferred to
northern Italy as the BdO, working under
Karl Wolff. There he was also responsible for
Bandenbekämpfung, hunting and suppressing
resistance fighters and
political prisoners and organising the respective transfer to prisons and concentration camps. Working with
Theodor Dannecker and
Friedrich Boßhammer, Kamptz provided the security guards to deport the
Jews from Italy. In August 1944, he was promoted to SS-
Obergruppenführer and General of the Police. During the war, Kamptz was awarded the
Clasp to the Iron Cross, 1st and 2nd class and, on February 7, 1945, the
German Cross in silver. == Post-war life ==