In 1922, at the founding congress of the Young Communist League of Poland (ZMKwP), the youth wing of the KPP, he was made Secretary of the organization.

At the outbreak of World War II in 1939, Lampe was freed and fled to Białystok (after the Soviet invasion of Poland a part of the Soviet-occupied zone).

The rest of his life Lampe spent in the Soviet Union; he served there as editor of the Polish-language magazines Nowe Widnokręgi ('New Horizons') and Wolna Polska ('The Free Poland').

In the same year, Lampe also participated in the creation of the 1st Tadeusz Kościuszko Infantry Division.

His book Miejsce Polski w Europie ('Poland's place in Europe') was published by the ZPP.