[1] Born on April 8, 1927, in Bremen, Germany, to American diplomat Dorothea Caroline Gatjeshipper and her husband Henry Dietrich Lampe, whose business career involved shipping cargo, young Hank was an American citizen by birth but only moved stateside to Arlington, Virginia, with his family as World War II began, and Germany and the United States exchanged diplomats and their families.

Several years later, Lampe married widow Margaret Marston Sanger, who had been active in the Democratic party (and on the State Board of Education), and helped raise her three children.

Two years later, his mother was scheduled to become vice-consul in Austria, but never left the U.S.A., instead dying of a stroke in Arlington, so Henry and his wife Ginny Lampe moved into her house.

In 1955, Lampe took an job with the Bureau of the Budget, and the family soon moved to a house of Greencastle Street in north Arlington, where they would live for more than three decades until Ginny's death.

Lampe began his civic activism in discussions concerning lighting at Greenbrier playground and the neighboring Yorktown High School's athletic fields.

Castro became the first Republican to win election to that local body in modern times, and won re-election once, with Ginny Lampe as his campaign manager.

Two years later Arlington's Democrats reorganized, and Lampe lost his re-election bid, coming in 5th among the seven candidates for the three part-time delegate positions.

Lampe became the hospital board's president during his charter-limited nine years of service, and later endowed a nursing scholarship in his wife Ginny's memory.

He was survived by his second wife Margaret Marston Lampe, two step-daughters (Peggy Van Cleave and Nancy Wykoff) and nine step-grandchildren.

Margaret Marston Lampe donated her papers from before their marriage to Virginia Tech, on whose Board of Visitors she had served beginning in 1988 and before moving to Florida.