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The shrewd, tough, and opportunistic owner of Pinchfield Farm, Mr. Frederick symbolizes Adolf Hitler, head of the Nazi regime in Germany.  He is named after the Prussian monarch Frederick the Great, whom Hitler personally glorified and whom Germany idealized. Mr. Frederick is noted for driving hard bargains and for stealing property in order to grow his own farm. He is conniving and successfully dupes Napoleon into selling timber with fake banknotes. When Snowball disappears, it is Mr. Frederick’s farm, Pinchfield, that the pigs tell the other animals Snowball sold himself to. Rumors about Mr. Frederick’s mistreatment of animals also work to paint him as a cruel object of fear. Like the other humans the animals interact with, Mr. Frederick is posed as a greater threat than Napoleon and the pigs, which in turn allows the pigs to continue their totalitarian rule without contestation.

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