Why did Francis II abdicate from/dissolve the HRE

From what I've read, Francis II abdicated for worry that Napoleon would take the title for himself, but could Nappy really do that?
Wouldn't Nappy have to wait until the Francis died and seeing as how Ferdinand (Francis's heir) was challenged/prone to seizures and epilepsy it'd make sense that no elector would sensibly vote for him and may have to by obligations vote for Nappy. Could Nappy have taken the Imperial title from Francis in a peace treaty (I doubt that'd be recognised though)
 
From what I've read, Francis II abdicated for worry that Napoleon would take the title for himself, but could Nappy really do that?
Wouldn't Nappy have to wait until the Francis died and seeing as how Ferdinand (Francis's heir) was challenged/prone to seizures and epilepsy it'd make sense that no elector would sensibly vote for him and may have to by obligations vote for Nappy. Could Nappy have taken the Imperial title from Francis in a peace treaty (I doubt that'd be recognised though)

The Hapsburgs dissolved the HRE in 1806 because frankly by that point it was deader than a month-old corpse. Napoleon was carving huge chunks of Germany up and giving them to his brothers and allies, whilst at the same time obliterating the old patchwork of kingdoms and dukedoms and bishoprics that made the HRE such a total nightmare for any mapmaker. Francis II had no effective power over the HRE in August 1806. The Electors were splintering or vanishing, the French Empire was all over the place and certainly all over the Rhine and he had just been part of the embarrassing military calamities of 1805 (Ulm and Austerlitz). Francis took the pragmatic (and blatantly illegal) decision to dissolve it and centre Hapsburg power in what became Austro-Hungary. Pinched the crown jewels as well, the sticky-fingered git.
 
Actually Francis first had created himself Hereditary Emperor of Austria (the Holy Roman Emperor though by that point de facto hereditary was elected) in 1804 (the first reaction on Napoleon assuming an imperial title) sanctioned by him as Holy Roman Emperor. So he was a rare double emperor, though a prefer the German term Doppelkaiser.

By 1806 the pretence of the Empire had even been wrecked by France, see the post of Cymraeg; however de facto Habsburg dynastic power had since Rudolf I been centred on Austria and they gradually expanded in this region.

Though Francis later even wed his daughter archduchess Marie-Louise to Napoleon, Austria like Prussia was one of the leading German powers against Napoleonic wars, which (the Napoleonic (not the revolutionary) wars) from a German perspective were seen as a war of liberation.

Also often overlooked Austria had the 2nd largest standing army, after France and Russia.
 
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