<prompt> Bhala ukuqhubeka kwalesi sigaba - UKempf wajoyina i-Imperial German Army ngo-1905; ngemva kweMpi Yezwe I, wakhonza e-Reichswehr futhi kamuva e-Wehrmacht. Ngo-Okthoba 1937 uKempf wathatha umyalo we-4th Panzer Brigade eyayisanda kwakhiwa; ngoJanuwari 1939 wakhushulelwa esikhundleni sokuba Generalmajor. Ekuqaleni kweMpi Yezwe Yesibili eYurophu, wabamba iqhaza ekuhlaselweni kwePoland njengomkhuzi wePanzer Division Kempf, owaziwa nangokuthi Panzerverband Ostpreußen Panzer Group East Prussia we-3rd Army ngaphansi kukaGeorg von Küchler. Njengomlawuli wesigaba, wathola ukuzinikela kweFort Zakroczym, okwalandela ukubulawa kwabantu abaningi eZakroczym, ekupheleni kweMpi yaseModlin  <response>: . futhi. I-division yabuyela e-East Prussia ekupheleni komkhankaso wasePoland, futhi uKempf waqanjwa njengomlawuli we-1st Light Division, eyaqanjwa kabusha ngokuthi i-6th Panzer Division, ngo-18 Okthoba 1939. 