A method for producing a porous graphitized carbon material coated with metal nanoparticles, in particular for electrochemical applications, comprising the following method steps: (a) providing a porous template framework made of an inorganic template material, (b) infiltrating the porous template framework with a carbon precursor, (c) thermal treatment of the carbon precursor, comprising carbonizing the carbon precursor at a carbonization temperature, (d) removing the template framework to form template material-free particulate porous carbon material, and (e) covering the template material-free particulate porous carbon material with a catalytically active substance, characterized in that • the template material-free particulate porous carbon material obtained according to method step (d) is graphitized to form graphitized particulate porous carbon material at a graphitization temperature that is in the range from 1,400 to 2,500 °C and that is higher than the carbonization temperature, • the graphitized carbon material is subjected to an activation treatment in an oxidizing atmosphere, • wherein the graphitized carbon material having a hierarchical pore structure having a pore volume of at least 0.5 cm 3 /g determined by means of mercury porosimeter measurement, at least 75% of the pore volume being accounted for by macropores in the size range of 100 to 5000 nm, and • in that the provision of the template framework in method step (a) comprises a measure in which porous particles from the inorganic template material are produced from a starting material by means of flame hydrolysis or pyrolysis, and these particles are deposited from the gas phase to form the template framework. (a) providing a porous template framework made of an inorganic template material, (b) infiltrating the porous template framework with a carbon precursor, (c) thermal treatment of the carbon precursor, comprising carbonizing the carbon precursor at a carbonization temperature, (d) removing the template framework to form template material-free particulate porous carbon material, and (e) covering the template material-free particulate porous carbon material with a catalytically active substance, • the template material-free particulate porous carbon material obtained according to method step (d) is graphitized to form graphitized particulate porous carbon material at a graphitization temperature that is in the range from 1,400 to 2,500 °C and that is higher than the carbonization temperature, • the graphitized carbon material is subjected to an activation treatment in an oxidizing atmosphere, • wherein the graphitized carbon material having a hierarchical pore structure having a pore volume of at least 0.5 cm 3 /g determined by means of mercury porosimeter measurement, at least 75% of the pore volume being accounted for by macropores in the size range of 100 to 5000 nm, and • in that the provision of the template framework in method step (a) comprises a measure in which porous particles from the inorganic template material are produced from a starting material by means of flame hydrolysis or pyrolysis, and these particles are deposited from the gas phase to form the template framework. <EOS>