Haushahn

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General information Native name: Haushahn GmbH Country: Germany Established: 1889 Founder: Immanuel Hahn Headquarters: Stuttgart, Germany Website: haushahn.de Status: Operating Notes: Acquired by Schindler in 1999, and is now under the ownership of Schindler Group

Haushahn is a German elevator company from Stuttgart, Germany. Founded by in 1889, it was acquired by Schindler in 1998 and since then it became part of the Schindler Group.

Overview

It was initially a family-owned company founded in the late 1800s by Immanuel Hahn in Stuttgart, Germany. It had also exported elevators to other countries through distributors. After many years, it was sold to Swiss elevator company Schindler in 1998 and became part of it since then.

Since it is now part of Schindler, it now sells and installs rebadged Schindler elevator products. For example, the Haushahn lifeLine is a rebranded Schindler 3300 and the Haushahn designLine is a rebadged Schindler 5500. However, all of these products are only sold in Europe.

History of Haushahn in Indonesia

Haushahn entered Indonesia in September 1995 through PT. Ihaka Saka Nusantara as its distributor. However, it remained in the Indonesian market for only two years and had only installed about 90 elevators, mostly low to mid rise installations. It ended in 1997 when Ihaka Saka Nusantara decided to stop importing Haushahn elevators due to the high costs caused by the Asian financial crisis.

Since 2005, Ihaka Saka Nusantara is the sole distributor for Hosting elevators and escalators from China, which are sold in Indonesia as "AE-Lift Hosting". It had also distributed Lift Munich (now Liftmaterial) elevators at one point.

Because Haushahn elevators were not widely installed in Indonesia, it is now very difficult to find original Haushahn elevators as almost all of them have either been modernized or replaced by another brand. As of July 2023, the only known remaining installation is at Mal Ratu Indah in Makassar.

1990s

Standard 1990s Haushahn elevators typically use Schaefer MT 28 square buttons and floor indicators with LED dot matrix display. There are a few cases where they use round Schaefer buttons (RT 28), like the ones at Twin Plaza Hotel, Jakarta (main elevators, before replaced in 2012) and Hyatt Regency Yogyakarta.

Depending on the model and specification, the controllers used in these elevators could be Haushahn MC2001 or MC3000; the former seems to be the most common series used in traction elevators.

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  1990s Haushahn call station, with Schaefer RT 28 buttons.

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  Custom (?) hall lanterns on a Haushahn elevator in Hyatt Regency Yogyakarta.

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  Typical 1990s Haushahn car floor indicator. Note the Haushahn logo and the distributor name above the display.

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  1990s Haushahn car station, with Schaefer RT 28 buttons (the door control and alarm buttons are Schaefer MT 28).

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  A Haushahn service elevator in Hyatt Regency Yogyakarta.

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  Call button from the same elevator, which is a Schaefer MT 28 button.

List of notable Haushahn elevators in Indonesia

There are only a handful remaining Haushahn elevators in Indonesia. Some of them have already been modernized or replaced into another brand over the past few years. Below here is a list of some of the known remaining Haushahn elevators that can still be found in Indonesia.

NOTE: Columns highlighted in pink indicate that the elevators are no longer exist.

Location name	City/town	Year installed	Remarks
Twin Plaza Hotel	Jakarta	1996	Main elevators were replaced by Lemova (a local generic company) in late 2012. Service elevators were still original as of 2015. It is unknown if they are still there now.
Graha Cijantung	Jakarta	1994	Scenic elevator has been replaced into a Schindler 3300 in 2019, while the service elevator (had been modernized by Abtech at some point) has been replaced into Schindler 5500 in 2020.
Graha Telkomsigma (formerly German Center)	BSD City, Serpong, Tangerang, Banten	1994	Most of them have been modernized by ThyssenKrupp in the late 2000s. Another elevator was modernized with LiSA controls. In 2014, one service elevator was found in its original condition.
Hyatt Regency Yogyakarta	Yogyakarta	1997	Passenger elevators replaced into Mitsubishi in mid 2023.
Garden Palace Hotel	Surabaya	1994	Replacement from 1980s Indolift elevators when the hotel was "vertically" renovated. Main elevators in the tower were replaced by Kone in 2013-2014, while the service/fireman elevator was replaced into a generic in the 2010s.
Mal Ratu Indah	Makassar	1997	Probably the last Haushahn elevators installed in Indonesia.

Trivia

• Haushahn was the fourth elevator brand from a German speaking nation to enter Indonesia, after Schindler, Thyssen and Lift Munich (now Liftmaterial).

Gallery

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  Older Haushahn logo.

External links

• Official website (German)