To provide an engagement chain type lifting device which avoids the occurrence of inclination of a body to be lifted, while an article to be carried is vertically moved parallel with an installation surface and is accurately moved to a prescribed position in the vertical direction.

In the engagement chain type lifting device 100, two chain modules 120 and 120 are arranged being separated from each other in the chain disengagement direction H, and a drive motor 140 is shared by two chain units 120U and 120U. A drive motor controller 150 for controling the drive motors 140 and 140 based on at least one control parameter P of the vertical directional position D of the body 130 to be lifted and the inclination C of the body 130 to be lifted with respect to the installation surface G is electrically connected to the drive motors 140 and 140.