I don't think they were trying to carve up Germany as much as they were fighting for dominance of the colonial markets. The French had been alarmed by recent German industrial buildup and wanted to seize the moment while they still had comparable militarys to push Germany back down. The British had a long standing policy of sabotaging any other European power they saw as getting too powerful as well.

Germany by contrast was begining to resent it's own lack of colonial holdings