At the time, Tito was the president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY).
The association of the Danube Swabians holds Tito and the Communist regime responsible for the expulsion of more than 200,000 ethnic Germans from the former SFRY after the Second World War.
The association said in a statement that of those 200,000 Germans who fled the area, 50,000 died in that period.
At a time when mass graves of victims of the Tito regime are being discovered every now and then in the area of the former Yugoslavia, it is necessary to posthumously strip Tito of the German award, the association says.
According to the statement, the request which the association sent to German President Wulff on 7 January this year, has had a great echo among Swabians in Brazil and North America and among Croatian expatriates.