Karl Albert von Kamptz

Freiherr[1] Karl Albert Christoph Heinrich von Kamptz (16 September 1769 in Schwerin – 3 November 1849 in Berlin) was a German jurist and Prussian Ministers of Justice from 1832 to 1842.

In 1809 he returned to Neustrelitz; the following year, as Prussian chamberlain, he led the body of Queen Luise to Prussia and in 1811 found a position there at the Berlin Court of Appeals, where he worked as a member of the Oberappellationssenats.

In addition to Klemens Wenzel Lothar von Metternich, he was one of the toughest opponents and pursuers of the freedom of press issued there in 1816 under Grand Duke Carl August.

The stumbling block is the position paper published by Kamptz in the Yearbooks of the Prussian Legislature, "Discussion, as he calls it, 'on the public-burning of pamphlets.'"

"These words clearly aimed against the political professors in Jena, specifically against the "Histrion" Luden, one of the most important "spiritus rectores" of the Jenaer Urbschenschaft.

The Berlin tailoring revolution of 1830 was directed less at the King, but rather, as the historian Ilja Mieck writes, at the reactionary clique of Wittgenstein and Kamptz, for their non-compliance with the royal constitutional promises made.

On the basis of various indications, family researchers consider it possible that Kamptz was the biological father of the prehistorian, archivist and conservator Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch.