The invention discloses an IGBT (insulated gate bipolar transistor) parallel drive and drive protection circuit in a high-power high-voltage frequency converter. The circuit comprises a drive adapter board, a PWM (pulse width modulation) primary amplifying circuit, an auxiliary power source power-down protection circuit, a drive push-pull circuit, a drive short-out protection circuit, a drive disconnection protection circuit, an IGBT soft turn-off circuit and a drive fault output circuit, the auxiliary power source power-down protection circuit comprises a power source monitoring circuit and a drive resetting circuit, and the power source monitoring circuit sends a drive power source resetting signal to the drive resetting circuit which is connected with the PWM primary amplifying circuit; the drive push-pull circuit is connected with the auxiliary power source power-down protection circuit and connected with the drive adapter board through a drive cable, the drive short-out protection circuit is respectively connected with the drive push-pull circuit and the drive adapter board, an input end of the drive disconnection protection circuit is connected with the drive cable, the IGBT soft turn-off circuit is in signal connection with the drive short-out protection circuit, and an input end of the drive fault output circuit is connected with the drive short-out protection circuit and the drive disconnection protection circuit respectively. The IGBT parallel drive and drive protection circuit has functions of detecting short-out, power-down of a drive power source, soft turn-off and disconnection of the drive cable.