TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - INORGANIC CHEMISTRY - Preferred Components: The metal compound is in the form of a salt selected from chlorides, oxides, hydroxides and alkoxides of a transition metal. The transition metal is selected from metals of the 4th period and metals of groups 4-6 of the Periodic Table of the Elements (preferably titanium, zirconium, vanadium, niobium, tantalum, chromium, molybdenum, tungsten, iron, cobalt and nickel).    TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - ORGANIC CHEMISTRY - Preferred Method: The molar ratio of the metal compound to the carbon- and nitrogen-comprising organic substance is 1:1 to 1:10. The evaporation of the dispersion medium is carried out in a rotary evaporator, in a spray dryer or in a paddle dryer. The heating is carried out either in a rotary tube furnace, using microwave radiation or in a plasma; or in an inert atmosphere (preferably inert atmosphere). Preferred Components: The carbon-comprising support is selected from conductive carbon blacks, graphites, graphenes and carbon nanotubes. The carbon- and nitrogen-comprising organic substance is selected from urea, ethylenediamine, ethanolamine, melamine, melam, melem, its polymers, compounds of formula CxNy, organic compounds of formula Cx'Ny'Hz'On or organic compound of formula Cx1Ny1Hz1On1. The dispersion medium solvent is water, an organic solvent or a mixture of different organic solvents.x=1-6;y=1-6;x'=1-30;y'=1-30;z'=0-30;n'=0-5;x1=1-6;y1=2-12;z1=0-10;n1=0-2. EXAMPLE - WCl4 (4.5 g) was dissolved in ethanol (50 ml). A solution of urea (4.5 g) in ethanol (50 ml) was added to it and the mixture was stirred for 30 minutes. AT325 (RTM: Carbon black) (3.8 g) and a further ethanol (50 ml) were subsequently added and the mixture was stirred for a further 30 minutes. The mixture was concentrated on a rotary evaporator until a viscous mass had been obtained, and this mass was then heated in a tube furnace at 100 degrees C for 2 hours in a nitrogen atmosphere and subsequently at 850 degrees C for 6 hours. The tungsten loading of the carbon-comprising support produced in this way was 35%, and the crystallite size of the carbide phase (WC) was 29 nm.