From 13 February 1942 to 16 January 1943 he was commander of the 384th Infantry Division. Shortly before the division was encircled in the Stalingrad pocket, he was flown out with the staff. From mid-March 1943 to June 1944 he took over Division No. 404, which was responsible for the replacement troops in Military District IV (Dresden). He was then the sole commander of the 232nd Infantry Division, the former Wildflecken Infantry Division, until the end of the war. This division was used in Italy around Brescia and Milan. On 25 April 1945 the division was the only division to escape the American encirclement of the forces commanded by Marshal Graziani. A week later, however, the division surrendered and von Glabenz became a prisoner of war of the Americans.