Career
As a young woman she joined the "Christian Community" (Christengemeinschaft) an anthroposophical denomination founded by a group of evangelical theologians in Switzerland in 1922, and which was banned in Germany in 1941. After the war she was among the millions who relocated away from the center and east of Germany, moving to Oldenburg where she worked in teacher training, herself authoring one of the first democratic school text books of the period. In 1946 she joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (Social Democratic Party of Germany).
In 1960 she was among the founders of the German Peace Union (DFU).
In the early 1940s, while living at Jena, Riemeck befriended the newly widowed Doctor Ingeborg Meinhof, moving in with the Meinhof family as a lodger.