Since May 1, 1995, he was a member of the board of Deutsche Bahn AG and as a labor director for the board department, since August 1, 1999 also for the legal matters of the group.
Föhr was recalled by his post at the Supervisory Board meeting on December 5, 2001 and switched to the position of the spokesman for DB Services GmbH from January 1, 2002. This subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn had 20,000 employees with around € 2 billion. In this company, responsibility for the corporate real estate and the infrastructural and technical services of the DB were bundled. In 2003 Horst Föhr left DB AG.