3] 1880)[1] was a Baltic German lawyer and politician who was the mayor of Reval from 22 December 1877 to 6 April 1878.

A member of a prominent Baltic German family that had origins in Lübeck, von Riesemann studied the arts abroad.

This was due to the revocation of the Magistracy of Reval, the governing institution of the city at the time.

He emerged as a central figure in the opposition to the main Baltic German party in the elections to the first independent Reval city council.

[2] He was succeeded by Baron Alexander Rudolf Karl von Uexküll.