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No it was not designed as anything. It is not really a 9mm. The original Luger cartridge was the 7,63mm Luger. When the Model 1900 7.63mm Luger was tested by the American and German armiies they rejected it because of its small caliber. To try to resolve this DWM eliminaked the bottle neck in the 7.63 case and used an 8.84mm bullet. They called the resukting cartridge the "9mm." It was adopted by the German Army in 1908/
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+1. The 9mm was a stopgap solution. Most users wanted something that fired a bigger slug than the 7,63mm Luger. However, DWM wanted to avoid having to redesign the Luger and retool it's equipment. So they simply put in as big a slug as they could and loaded it to a level where it would function reliably in the Luger.