As práticas de avaliação de documentos nos arquivos federais da alemanha

Abstract: Various theoretical, practical and methodological discussions are produced on the appraisal in different countries. Germany has a long tradition in the field of archives and has made a notable contribution to appraisal. Despite this, the country produces little literature in other languages ´´reflecting on its experience, which is reflected in the international dissemination of that countrys Archivology. The aim of this paper is to discuss the appraisal within the scope of the Federal Archives of Germany (Bundesarchiv), which is justified by expanding the archival information of a country with a rich production on archives that is not widely disseminated in Brazil. The research is qualitative, exploratory and the methodology used was bibliographic research and the application of a questionnaire. It was found that there are different approaches in the spheres of public administration, which show once again that studying the appraisal function is not a simple task to think about, much less to practice, but that it is essential to know and debate about other forms of carry it out both at different structural / organizational levels and according to different historical contexts.