Why did Otto von Lossow refuse an order from Berlin to act against the Nazi Party?

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Beer Hall Putsch Nazi paramilitary troops participating in the Beer Hall Putsch, November 9, 1923.

General Otto von Lossow refused to act against the Nazi Party because he was prompted to do so by Gustav von Kahr, the Bavarian state commissioner (Generalstaatskommissar).1

At the time, the Bavarian government was in open defiance of the Reich government in Berlin, largely due to tensions over the end of passive resistance in the Ruhr. Kahr and the Bavarian authorities sought to collaborate with the extreme right-wing groups that had found refuge in their state, and they attempted to detach the army corps in Bavaria from its allegiance to the central government in Berlin by assuming authority over it. Consequently, Lossow followed the direction of the Bavarian leadership rather than his superiors in the Reich government.21